Háború és béke, 2. rész: Natasa Rosztova

The plot revolves this time around what goes on around Natasha. We don’t get to see the front at all. But that doesn’t mean that Bondarchuk won’t leave speechless everybody (including me) who thinks that his strength is in exteriors with thousands of extras and not in subtle interior insights into the life of the contemporary nobility. At least one level better and many more times more coherent that the first part. The special little games with the camera are still there. In fact there’s more of them (the wolf eyes!). It just needed to skip the cheap psychological monologs. Why keep on always coming in after the fact and stating the obvious? (2008.09.29)