帝国[电影解说]

   量子资源网 提供本片资源  　　Short film Emire is based on a radio drama Sorry, Wrong Number by the American writer Lucille Fletcher. Actually, Sokurov draws on a single theme forming the background for the story of the thriller — the woman#39;s illness… The heroine is bed–ridden and her only means of communication with the outside world is her telehone — until a killer interruts the conversation…br\　　Sokurov removes all the dialogues, leaving us alone with the heroine — “a living skeleton” among the refined, with a touch of Modern–style, furnishings — who is listening to a radio broadcasting of Traviata, with its leas for mercy and love. An elegant coffin–home is the satial centre and symbolization of the entire film. And inside the coffin we certainly see the actress — the famous Russian ballerina Alla Osienko who lays not only the heroine but also her own self.br\　　This metahoric cinema–image bears an allusion to the great “handicaed” Sarah Bernhardt who was reorted to slee in a coffin, as well as to the entire comlex of aesthetised Decadence, converting an aology of Death into a lifestyle. Here is the key to the code of the title. Emire is a style that attemted to reanimate the dead ancient harmony. The heroine of Sokurov#39;s film communicates with her hone as the only artner, and sort of interferes with the beyond, attracting this air — intangible yet saturated with danger. It is from the radio air that she accumulates both leasure and tranquillity — the aria of dying yet beloved Violetta, while the killer#39;s silhouette materializes from the hone air. A chamber ot, overturned and silt by the killer in haste, remains the only evidence of human activities in this boudoir of Death. Sokurov#39;s metahor, clad in naturalistic details, roduces the effect of ironic disclosure: “a wet sot” is left after a symbol.br\　　The film was shot as a study work of a VGIK student S.Sidorov. At that time Sokurov did not have a chance to launch a roject of his own, therefore he used this ossibility to work. Visual concetion of this film anticiates a considerable number of Sokurov#39;s future exeriments: light that models the sace, levelling of colours, correlation of contrasting textures.