Sin Review: The Madness and Melancholy of Michelangelo Sin Review: The Madness and Melancholy of Michelangelo
Andrei Konchalovsky s handsomely lensed film about the great Italian artist grapples with how to create divine works amid earthly travails.
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Director: Andrei Konchalovsky
With: Alberto Testone, Jakob Diehl, Francesco Gaudiello, Federico Vanni, Glenn Blackhall, Orso Maria Guerrini, Anita Pititto. (Italian dialogue)
Running time: Running time: 134 MIN.
To say “Sin” is about Michelangelo is much too reductive. Rather than offering up a definitive portrait of the Italian artist, Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky has crafted instead He’s all those things and yet defined by none of them. It’s telling that “Sin” doesn’t actually spend much time with Michelangelo creating, less interested as it is in what makes a great artist than in the material conditions that shape and inspire one.