♪ulia

The Cranes Are Flying

“That’s what love is, my dear; a harmless mental illness.”

Lex

The Cranes Are Flying

You have to admit, the story is passable but the visual 🥰

farukilduz

The Cranes Are Flying

Abi kavuşmaları gerekiyordu ya böyle de yapılmaz ki

fabian

The Cranes Are Flying

i didn't know i needed post stalinist soviet cinema and oh what a film man! stop what you’re doing and watch ‘the cranes are flying’ right now. film craft at it's finest. artists like mikhail kalatozov and sergei urusevsky can rattle you awake from the slumber of ordinary films. a technical mastery of the black and white medium. the film’s near avant-garde stylings on such a massive scale make an already heart stabbing story all the more powerful. the subtle but sharp contrasts and the dreary framing captures this feeling of dread and oppression. the agony depicted in this film is sisyphian. nothing goes right, but it can always go more wrong and the shots in this film show that visually and structurally as well as narratively. it feels like we are always looking just a little bit down on our characters, like guardian angels to a nightmare. for a film that’s only 96 minutes long, there’s a lot of depictions of very routine things and yet it feels packed with emotional moments. there are these little scenes, of people talking about curtains, or the factory that would normally feel a little mundane in another film but in this one, they all feel like gut punches. a lot of working, lots of sad family moments, shots that hold and crystallize emotions. it’s a candid depiction of daily life and the nuance and depth of human emotion. tatiana samoilova performance is haunting and deeply affectionate. there’s a sense of helplessness that kalatozov captures so well in her. the same sense of helplessness that we remember, being loved and dreaming of love.