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[:en] Two famous painters vie for the soul of Revolutionary Russia. An uncomplicated film about thorny stuff like […]

[:en] I’ve been on an art kick recently, So, when the opportunity to review Chagall-Malevich came across my […]

[:en]You know that "Chagall-Malevich" isn't going to be a typical biopic, or a typical feature film, or a typical anything, about ten minutes in, when its hero, Russian Jewish painter Marc Chagall (Leonid Bichevin), returns to his hometown of Vitebsk after years in Paris, and reunites with his sweetheart, Bella (Kristii Schneider)[...][:]

[:en]Set primarily in revolutionary-era Russia, Alexander Mitta’s “Chagall-Malevich” centers on the painter Marc Chagall and fictionalizes his real-life efforts to establish an artistic bulwark amid war and ideological ferment. It’s a literally colorful and playful attempt to portray battlefields of artistic ambition and political struggle. But its dialogue and characters are also written as subtly as a radical manifesto.[:]