The motet to Emperor Nicholas and his wife, confusing with the overwhelming chorus of Scriabin's Symphony #3, opens a mystical parenthesis in the film that gains religious relevance when Father Olivia, who is the proto-deacon of the cathedral - very given to excesses of gluttony as Rabelais ridiculed them, by the way - there is a harsh impact against reality because a young student lends him a book - which he cannot stop reading - and in which the animals have a concrete message to teach us humans as close similar. Impacted by the tone and pure spiritual content of the text, the singing deacon…
Leer reseña completa →