The Color Of Pomegranates

Sergei Paradjanov, Armenfilm, 1969; 75m

Paradjanov's second feature takes even more creative chances than his debut, SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS. The film is a surrealist tribute to the history of the Armenian art. The Color of Pomegranates, its alternate title, sums up the sensuousness that permeates the picture; it is "subversive solely in its beauty," wrote A. Ter Minassian in 1978 in Jeune Cinema. Paradjanov was thrown in jail on trumped-up sodomy charges soon after the film's completion.