Parajanov sopravvalutato o sottovalutato

I really like color of pomegranates but i can’t say the same for his other movies. Shadows of ancestors forgotten for example, it’s nice to see endangered cultures on screen but portrayal of sexist traditions don’t make me feel like “woah absolute cinema”. I thought the same while watching some movies of Ozu, Yousef Chahine, and classical Turkish cinema

I am pretty neutral on this topic, I think he’s neither overrated nor underrated. From my experience, mostly people who are “really into cinema” know about -excluding Armenian people- but still that’s a thing

I’m a Turkish woman from Turkey and I encountered a Parajanov exhibition at a famous museum here, people were like “Oh i didn’t know him but now I’m interested” since our cultures are similar regardless of whatever happened in history