ART CINEMA

Art Cinema

Art Cinema

Introduction

Art cinema is also known as art film which refers to an independent and serious film which aims to target niche market instead of a mass market. An art cinema is “intended to be a serious artistic work, often experimental and not designed for mass appeal rather than commercial profit”. Art is also a very important part of a culture, and cinema has become a part of this aspect of human culture. This thing had become relevant from the decade of eighties, when people started to consider issues like the emphasis on the difference, the tension between what exists and what is possible (the cinema was understood as broadening horizons), the "measurement" of reactions of the public, etc.

The ambiguity of the relationship between objective reality and film image is a key feature of cinematic expression, and this thing has a huge impact on the relationship between viewer and film, as well as bringing the film language to a poetic language. According to Martin, the image reproduced in a step towards reality, and this eventually affects our feelings and takes a moral or ideological significance in our culture (Martin, 1996, pp.22). When one is at some distance from the silver screen, one is conscious of being in a show and this would leave the impression of passivity that is imposed by the image motion. Ayala has an opinion that art is a spiritual process like performance as it is detached from reality and is seemingly guided by the compass of aesthetic sense. We can say that the film is definitely an art, but a controversial art. First, by the mediation of an industrial company structure that constrains the artistic purpose of the film, this should always seek to reach more people, which largely influence the configuration of their language (Ayala, 1995, pp.17). The Return is a 2003 Russian drama film which was directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev and is said to be an art cinema or an art film. This report further explains the meanings of the label “art cinema” and how the film “The Return” depicts itself as an art cinema and incorporates the meaning of true art cinema.

Discussion

The movie “The Return” is an example of an art cinema. The director of this movie Zvyagintsev tries to hide the identity of the central character and tries to increase the mystery behind this thriller movie to enormous proportions. However, in the end, the director tries to reveal the story by solving it in a partial manner. Unlike most of the mystery stories, this movie has earned no robbery, scam or murder linked to it. It is based on two Russian boys named Ivan (Ivan) and the second Andrei (Vladimir). One day, both of them were shocked to know that their father who never existed had suddenly come home. Their father was named as Konstantin. The mother of the boys even did not tell them where he had come from and the point of keeping a fishing trip of ...