Watching Andrei Rublev – One More Time

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Andrei Rublev is my favorite Russian painter and one of my favorite painters overall. The movie “Andrei Rublev ” is my favorite Tarkovsky film and one of my favorite movies overall.

The movie is sixty years old, almost as old as me, and you can still watch it without a facepalm and without adjusting your perception to these sixty years passed. The Siskel Center runs a full Tarkovsky retrospective, and when I saw that they would be screening Andrei Rublev when Anna is visiting, I immediately wanted all three of us to watch it together.

Still as brilliant as I remember it.

For those who have never watched it, especially my English-speaking friends, the trailer is not the best and does not do the film justice. And it’s not about the mysterious Russian soul. And it’s over three hours long. Worth seeing, though.

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My name is Henrietta (Hettie) Dombrovskaya. I was born in Saint-Petersburg, Russian (actually, back then – Leningrad, USSR) in 1963, and immigrated to the United States in 1996. I love Saint Petersburg, the city I was born and raised in, and I think it’s one of the most beautiful places in the world. Similarly (but differently) I love Chicago, and can’t imagine myself moving somewhere else in the observable future. I have three children, Igor, Vlad and Anna, all adults living on their own, and one (so far) granddaughter Nadia. I also believe that my children are the best thing that happened in my life. As for my professional life, I am working in the field of Information Technologies. When I was twenty, I’ve declared that the databases are the coolest thing invented and that I want to do them for the rest of my life. Thirty plus years later, I still believe it’s true, and still, believe that the databases are the best. These two statements together imply that I think a person can have it all, and indeed, I think so! Keep reading my journals to find out how I did it.

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