Good art house films domestic and foreign

The term "arthouse" exists in full about 20 years. In the 1980-1990-ies. A broad audience of viewers were heavily stuffed with action-style films, and "smart cinema" did not reach the wide-scale rental, limited to a closed or festival film screening. In recent years, the line between the mainstream and the art house has been blurred. Blockbusters, designed for a wide audience, are created all smarter, sometimes with claims of philosophizing. And the so-called "narrow-profile" good films - the art house from Kusturica, Jarmusch, Kim-Ki-Duk, Von Trier, Van Sent, Bernardo Bertolucci - collect a full house. Undoubtedly, this is a positive trend, indicating the preparedness of the current generation of cinephiles.

Signs of art house cinema

If we consider broadly the definition of the term, and, rather, in the field of the film industry and film distribution than art, then good art house films are not mainstream independent film projects, which are shown in specialized theaters. Such paintings have a lot of distinctive features, and none of them can not be called decisive. For example, many cinematographers claim that in this movie the story is intricate, it often deliberately reversed the time periods, and in the mainstream - linear. This statement is correct, although in the history of the world film industry there are art house paintings with a simple linear history, for example, almost all the films of the Dardenne brothers (by the way, very good art-house films) or "Le Havre" by Aki Kaurismaki.

Newfangled trend

At the present time, many critics call the distinctive feature of art house cinema the conflict, based on social or political problems, which is based on the plot. These are film projects, which have a pronounced sympathy for the social lower classes and all the disadvantaged, for example, in Rosetta or the film "Child" of the brothers-directors Dardenne. However, this newfangled trend can not be called an all-encompassing defining feature of art house cinema, as in the film by François Ozon "The Pool" it is clearly not about the social lower classes. Or in the project of David Cronenberg "Dangerous method", in which only all the characters are quite wealthy people. Nevertheless, the above-mentioned movies are the best films (art house). The rating of paintings in this direction is almost impossible, because the style is very diverse.

Typical audience

It is difficult enough to limit the audience, which will be interested in good art-house movies. For example, the "Theorem" directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini uniquely appeals to a special, limited intellectual stratum of society, to those who are interested in delving into the intricacies of hidden meanings, to fans of intellectual mysteries. On the other hand, the project of Hana Mahmalbaf "Buddha collapsed with shame" or "Child" all the same Dardenne are simple enough and do not require any kind of preparation from the viewer. A chic short film about the perception of the viewer of the non-German film was filmed by the Cohen brothers for the film almanac "Everyone has his own movie." The short film is a short story about a cowboy who accidentally wandered to the screening of Nuri Bilge Ceylan's film "The Seasons". The hero leaves the cinema genuinely shocked.

Arthausky cinema in Russia

In Russia, this genre, praised by European film festivals, is the subject of heated debate, almost a social watershed. Russian art house domestic film critics now and again accused of denigrating, one-sidedness and perversity of views on life in the country. Although the domestic good art-house films - it's just a segment of film production, originally freed from duty to bring pleasure, just. One of the fundamental functions of copyright non-commercial cinema is the critical image and comprehension of reality, attempts to revise society, the state, the philistine and everything else.

It so happened that in Russia "chic decorations for art house" are found almost everywhere. Modern writers Anna Melikyan and Avdotya Smirnova overcome them or just shoot good films , take it for granted and use as a background for the "eternal" Boris Khlebnikov, Alexei Popogrebsky in the melodramatic "Koktebel" and in dramatic "Simple things". Other authors manage to make it a full-fledged actor, like Alexei Balabanov in "Cargo 200". And none of the above is anything unnatural or far-fetched.

Best movies art house (Russia)

In Russia, according to the directors of the art house, the necessary texture so closely surrounds that even the originally existential abstract narrative narrative acquires the character of criticism of social everyday life. After Tarkovsky, who presented an invaluable gift to the national cinema - the film "Stalker", all progressive minds started talking about the great future of the Russian art house. The fact that the prospects of the domestic art house are phenomenal are evidenced by the best films (art house) Russian, the list of which is presented below.

• "Expulsion", "Elena" directed by Andrei Zvyagintsev.
• "The Last Tale of Rita" by Renata Litvinova.
• "Chapiteau show", "Dust" by Sergei Loban.
• "Live" by Vasily Sigarev.
• "Bury me behind the plinth" by Sergei Snezhkin.
• "Representing the victim" by Kirill Serebrennikov.
• "Siberia. Monamur "by Vyacheslav Ross.
• "The house" of Oleg Pogodin.

Field of activity of our directors - adherents of art house - is unlimited, competition is minimal, the possibilities are inexhaustible.