Soviet cinema at its most… spiritual? Iconoclast director Sergei Parajanov's deeply personal exploration of the cultural echoes found in the life of 18th-century Armenian troubadour/monk Sayat-Nova uses manuscript-inspired tableaux vivants, exquisite staging, and a profoundly rich symbolic vocabulary to sneak this one past the censors. Sort of.

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing David Cronenberg's Scanners (1981).