Summary: | First work (47 min.): In Elegy of a Voyage, a rapturous meditation haunted by moonlight and falling snow, Sokurov crosses vast terrain, sails the high seas, and stumbles through congested cities to arrive at the doors of the empty Boijmans Museum in Mary's square, a beautiful landscape by Peter Saenredam. 2nd work (26 min.): In Hubert Robert, A Fortunate Life, the director mediates on the work of French romantic artist Hubert Robert, whose paintings of lost ruins evoke the same nostalgia and lyricism of Sokurov's own moody films..
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