A face flooded with music

The screens of Scorsese about The Rolling Stones was released on the screens of the capital, the film of the famous American director Martin Scorsese “The Rolling Stones. May there be light ”in February solemnly opened the Berlin Film Festival, in June he closed the Sochi Kinotavr, and now he was released on Moscow screens. The number of these screens is small, when compared with those that any Hollywood film of medium size striving. But here everything is fair: hunters watching a film-concert is not an example less than friends and friends with Hellboys and Batmen.

In domestic cinema, the tradition of the film-concert did not let the roots. In Russia, there were musical films of Hollywood cut (the main one here - Grigory Alexandrov), there were Soviet muspotlacks like “The Woman” with Alla Pugacheva in the spotlight, there was even a children's game in the opera “The Adventures of Petrov and Vasechkin”, but there was no one to take and turn a musical performance into the film text. Yes, and from someone else's good this format, only ABBA appeared at the box office - in the years when the Swedish four already ceased to interest the audience, and before the new surge of love and musical “Mamma Mia!” It was still far away.

The pioneer was performed last year by Renata Litvinova. With the help of numerous students of the operator Sergei Machilsky, she captured Zemfira’s concert in the Green Theater and mounted the green theater in Zemfira from the filmed material. He came out in the spring, but he was not in demand by the audience of cinemas and almost immediately moved to DVD and to personal collections of Zemfirin and Renatin fans.

“Let there be light” - a story of a slightly different kind. First of all, Rolling. A lively and fiercely living legend, baking the dust out of several decades, cleansing his ears and possibly souls with his music. In addition, director Skorsze. Their long -standing admirer, an equally long -standing Russian idol, a man of acute cinematic hearing and the same sense of rhythm. Finally, archival films. In this sense, Litvinova was especially operating - Zemfira Ramazanova, not so long ago, was pleasing, cutting and hobing us with his work. And the “Rolling”, thank God, was not born yesterday, and it’s funny to watch how the young Jagger’s young Jagger question “Do you think you will do this for a long time?” seriously (or so it seems) answers: "Well, maybe for two years ..."

In general, in this film-concert, the most interesting is not a film or a concert. “Let there be light” as a film product does not represent anything original. Skorsze almost does not give out his presence. His cinema is an excellent example of humility of the directorial pride, an indicative example of the artist’s work on himself in the name of taming a predatory and active author and turning into a concentrated contemplator of someone else's act of creativity. Scorsese does not fuss in installation, not replete.

As for the concert, in fact there were two of them. Both are from last year's round of Rolling The Bigger Band. The two -part concert went out on the film, no one argues, cool. The devilish energy of the hinge skinny beast of Jagger is the most powerful, but still she can’t break through the celluloid film with such a crushing force as it turns out to be live. In short, to those who once made his way to the performance of The Rolling Stones in Luzhniki or recently rained down with a group in St. Petersburg in Palace, Scorsese as a satellite and assistant. They themselves are in the know: they heard, saw, remember.

But what the film is capable of - this is on an intelligible and visual story about the transformations of the face. From some age, people are responsible for their faces - everyone has repeatedly heard this truism. The novice musician Jagger in archival interviews is a young, almost cute, which does not show his internal scale in appearance. Or maybe there was no scale then. But Jagger lived with music and in music a long and very worthy life. And this life, in which there was a lot of things, was released a completely different face: I washed my cheeks, grew cheekbones, worked as a line of my mouth, turned my eyes into an eye, and the jagger himself into a unique beautiful freak, from which not only frantic temperament, but also a bright, unhappy light breaks out. The same one, from the name of the Anglo-American concert film worthy, as it is customary to say in such cases, the most close attention.

07.24.2008 / Dmitry Savelyev, the material was published in the "newspaper" No. 138 of 07.25.2008.