Picture yourself an Armenian living under Soviet occupation in the 1960's. Life is hard and always has been for your people. You look for entertainment where you can find it, and if you are lucky, one film set in and about your country ever five to ten years. 1969 rolls around and a film about one of your most famous figures, a poet, is released. And it just drags on and on and on without really telling anything resembling a story.
Yes, I get that it's visual but I also think it fails to tell a story in an engaging way. It was difficult to watch due to the pacing. Perhaps that's because we are too jaded with too much fast paced story-telling. But for our modern eyes it was not an enjoyable film.
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