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Decoding THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES

The Color of Pomegranates • 42m

In this 2017 video essay, film scholar James Steffen (“The Cinema of Sergei Parajanov”) offers a close reading of the symbols and references in THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES.

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