A weird Russian movie filmed on film of various quality and directed by a Japanese director trying to get back in the scene, Dersu Uzala has a special kind of beauty that appeals through subtlety to people who love the wild. Based on real people from the memoir of Captain Arseniev, it depicts the friendship woven between two vastly different people while traveling the Siberian taiga together. It's also a "twilight" film, about cultures that were simply erased by our incessant technological encroachment on the wild and an examination of our lives and their meaning.
Beautiful scenery, some gorgeous shots, a heartwarming and heartbreaking story, although a bit more bright than the actual material and a main character that inspired Master Yoda.
My wife loved the film, I also liked it a lot, I guess it's something that must be recommended on the chance that you would like it just as much, but enjoyment might vary a lot. In a way it's a very layered experience, watching in 2024 a movie made in 1975, by a director who dreamed of making it since 1950, from a memoir written in 1923, about the life of people in 1902, every new layer adding more distance from the original experience, erasing it, just like Dersu's grave.
Beautiful scenery, some gorgeous shots, a heartwarming and heartbreaking story, although a bit more bright than the actual material and a main character that inspired Master Yoda.
My wife loved the film, I also liked it a lot, I guess it's something that must be recommended on the chance that you would like it just as much, but enjoyment might vary a lot. In a way it's a very layered experience, watching in 2024 a movie made in 1975, by a director who dreamed of making it since 1950, from a memoir written in 1923, about the life of people in 1902, every new layer adding more distance from the original experience, erasing it, just like Dersu's grave.