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Introduction

Art cinema is also known as art film which refers to an independent and serious film

which aims to target niche market instead of a mass market. An art cinema is “intended to be a

serious artistic work, often experimental and not designed for mass appeal rather thancommercial profit”. Art is also a very important part of a culture, and cinema has become a part

of this aspect of human culture. This thing had become relevant from the decade of eighties,

when people started to consider issues like the emphasis on the difference, the tension betweenwhat exists and what is possible (the cinema was understood as broadening horizons), the

"measurement" of reactions of the public, etc.

The ambiguity of the relationship between objective reality and film image is a key

feature of cinematic expression, and this thing has a huge impact on the relationship betweenviewer and film, as well as bringing the film language to a poetic language. According to Martin,

the image reproduced in a step towards reality, and this eventually affects our feelings and takes

a moral or ideological significance in our culture (Martin, 1996, pp.22). When one is at some

distance from the silver screen, one is conscious of being in a show and this would leave theimpression of passivity that is imposed by the image motion. Ayala has an opinion that art is a

spiritual process like performance as it is detached from reality and is seemingly guided by thecompass of aesthetic sense. We can say that the film is definitely an art, but a controversial art.

First, by the mediation of an industrial company structure that constrains the artistic purpose of

the film, this should always seek to reach more people, which largely influence the configurationof their language (Ayala, 1995, pp.17). The Return is a 2003 Russian drama film which was

directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev and is said to be an art cinema or an art film. This report further

explains the meanings of the label “art cinema” and how the film “The Return” depicts itself as

an art cinema and incorporates the meaning of true art cinema.

Discussion

The movie “The Return” is an example of an art cinema. The director of this movieZvyagintsev tries to hide the identity of the central character and tries to increase the mystery

behind this thriller movie to enormous proportions. However, in the end, the director tries to

reveal the story by solving it in a partial manner. Unlike most of the mystery stories, this moviehas earned no robbery, scam or murder linked to it. It is based on two Russian boys named Ivan

(Ivan) and the second Andrei (Vladimir). One day, both of them were shocked to know that their

father who never existed had suddenly come home. Their father was named as Konstantin. The

mother of the boys even did not tell them where he had come from and the point of keeping afishing trip of the boys with their father was to understand him properly rather than going for

actual fishing. The film is very much brooding, eerie and intense as it proceeds. The audience

continues to stay in dismay that whether their father is a dictator, stranger or a ghost who he isdependent upon these two children to continue his mission. Throughout the movie there are

many questions that keep on crossing in one’s mind. For instance, where is their father taking

them? Why is he taking them for fishing? Why their father not telling them that where was he for all the previous time for which his family is unsure of? These were all the questions that left his

two children in state of confusion and made them not trust this man/father. If we take a closer

look, the movie also explains that the two children Andrei and Ivan continue to represent a

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human mind with two faces and mystery. This continues to describe the theme of an art cinema

and their creation.

They are art cinema movies and overlooking the tang of gaudiness about the expression,we can say that these and numerous different movies constitute a unique limb of the cinematic

foundation. My point in this article is to contend that we can suitably recognize the

craftsmanship silver screen as a dissimilar mode of film work on, owning an unambiguousauthentic being, a set of formal assemblies and implied survey methodology. All the more in

particular, the art film as a notable mode seems after World War II when the predominance of

Hollywood silver screen was starting to wind down. In the Unites States, the divorcement pronouncements made a lack of movies display. The story continues to have a sense of curiosity

as the father continues to different attitude and response towards his sons. Sometimes, there are

times when one tries to place himself in father shoes and then understand that what father is

thinking for us and making us do was completely right for us. For instance, the father did notshow himself for the past twelve years and therefore did not know anything about his sons. Not

even about their likes and dislikes. Now all of a sudden, there comes scenes in the movie where

the father asks his son to settle restaurant’s bill, then shows them how and tries to teach them

how to get their car out of the mud, and how to get your money back by punching the robber when he robbed your money. These are all the instances which prove that the father continues to

be a person who cares for his children and wants his children to stand up on their own feet.Therefore, there is not a single moment where one can decide whether father is a villain or not

because every time one thinks that he is a villain, he makes some move where all this perception

of being a villain washes off. Suspense is one of the biggest characters of the art cinema, and thismovie has it all. As there was a point where the three characters go for a trip and their mood

fuels the suspense. The ending of the film shows attribute to the Motorcycle Diaries by sealing

the film in a beautiful manner and leaving people immensely satisfied. By saying this is to invite

the criticism as there are creators of films like “The Return”, where films are very much differentto be bonded together. Yet I shall try to show that whereas stylistic devices and thematic motifs

may differ from one director to the other but the main theme and the functions of style of the

movie remains the same in the art cinema. The stylistic and narrative principles of the filmcontain a mode of cinematic discourse which is logically rational.

This art cinema like “The Return” rests upon a set of particular assumptions for the

cinematic style, spectatorial activities and structure that is narrative. It can be easily said that theart cinema containing classical cinema contains narrative form that tries to motivate the

cinematic representation (Philip, 1977, pp.89). These narratives are motivated by the art cinema

by two different forms usually authorial expressivity and realism. On the contrary, the art cinema

continued to describe itself as realistic cinema. It will try to show us real problems and reallocations such as lack of communication as shown in the movie “The Return” where the father

stays away from his sons for the past 12 years and suddenly appears out of blue. The art cinema

continues to play a vital difference from other styles of films. For instance, the art cinema isclassical in its dependence upon psychological causation; different characters and their different

effects on one another continue to remain central. But if the classical narrative and their

characters possess clear cut objectives and traits, the art cinema and its characters lack suchdefined goals and desires. There will be characters that may be questioning themselves for their

goals and would also act differently for reasons that are inconsistent showing a quality of the art

cinema’s narrative as drifting episodic. Some characters may not appear sometimes or wander

out completely which are some kind of events leading to nothing.

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The art cinema is less concerned with movement than response. Art cinema is a silver

screen of mental impacts in pursuit of their reasons (Bordwell, 1979, pp.56). The

dismemberment of feeling is frequently expressed as cure and help. At the same time regardlessof the fact that is not, the forward stream of causation is braked and characters delay to look for

the aetiology of their emotions. There likewise cases in art cinema where the model turns into a

supersensitive individual and one that have lost nothing in this planet. Art cinema and its role for the society have been unquestionable but it continues to have some ambiguities. The art cinema

has its own cultural aspects that can also be discussed when talking about the art cinema and its

relevance to the movie we discussed earlier. There have been many definitions of the concept of culture, but they all refer to their inclusion in a context and its influence on the habits and

behaviour of humans. In addition, it is considered in two basic ways, a humanist aspect, which is

more related to intellectual practices such as film and painting, whereas the other is

anthropological, i.e. being more united to the ways of doing things, the values and norms thatgovern the behaviour of people. The culture is studied from the perspective of effect and

interaction and can be described as a learned behaviour, which is not transmitted genetically, but

through a mode of interpretation and a meaning of reality.

Culture is a well-structured set of distinctive features of people that adapts and changesover the times. From this reflection, the body of a transmitter and receiver interpret the product

film text from within a given culture that does not have to be coincidental, it is necessary to placethe development of film communication in intercultural communication processes. There are

surprises that manifest in the culture point to something which should be acknowledged as

suggested by the post modernists. The acknowledgment in and of itself starts the healing process,even if what is being healed has not been identified. Whatever stories emerge, and reactions arise

from films, they bring an opening for conversation about what is really going on. Film can then

be thought of as serving a purpose similar to that of a therapist, as a catalyst for greater

consciousness, brought about by presenting material that has been, at least in part, suppressed.Through its enzymatic action, it can evoke a response that draws attention to itself. This response

should the culture take responsibility for it instead of placing the blame for it. On the contrary, it

can be a source of exposing the illness in the culture so that it can be nurtured back to health. Thesymptoms then call us to be caretakers of the wounded areas of the culture's soul.

Moreover, the art cinema can also act as a medium of communication. A cinema enables contact

between culture A and culture B through the products and language. The connection that isrelated to images is considered universal, requires the translation or natural language dubbing in

which it has been made into a product, but it is clear that there is a notable absence of some ways

in favour of an exclusive focus on vision and hearing. In addition, the film promotes the

construction of an artificial imagination does not always correspond with the actual reality of aculture, especially in times when the simulation becomes crucial. It is because Baudrillard

suggests, this new age suppresses references and supersedes the real by its signs. The image is

the only reality of the characters represented.

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Conclusion

Art cinema continues to play a significant role in its own world. However, art cinema and

its crisis as a reasonable mode of depiction in contemporary cinema is mostly because of theinnate inadequacies of this ideal model and part of the way to the conversions of the whole

cinematic territory in the course of recent decades especially last two decades. The film “The

Return” seems to be a source of contemporary mythology for culture. It continues to have amelding together of so many seemingly dissimilar elements. But still there seems something to

be missing which is not quite deep enough to provide the long lasting transformation that one

usually seeks. The film however provides its own theme but there are loopholes and scenes of curiosity which keeps the audience in dismay for a long period of time that who was the father

and where did he come from? This is one of the best examples of an art cinema as compared to a

normal film. Though the film has taken the place of traditional structures of meaning, it lacks the

same vitality and directness of the archetypal process. In conclusion it may be enough torecommend some avenues for future work as the foregoing sketch of the movie requires more in

depth detail and examination. An art cinema is a type of cinema that cannot be constructed in

isolation from cinematic practices which are the most important part of an art cinema.

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References

Ayala, F. (1995), “The writer and film. Chair”, Signo e Imagen, Madrid, pp. 17.Bordwell, David. (1979) Art Cinema as a Mode of Film Practice, Film Criticism 4 (1), (Fall), pp.

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August 2013Martin, M. (1996) “The language of cinema”, Gedisa, Barcelona, pp. 22

Philip Rosen. (1977) “Difference and Displacement in Seventh Heaven,” Screen XVIII, pp.89-

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