Parajanov überbewertet oder unterschätzt

I really like color of pomegranates but i can’t say the same for his other movies. Shadows of forgotten ancestors 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

One of the greatest filmmaker.
You can find a lot of references from Directors like Terayama, with the colors aspects.
And especially from Tarkovsky and basically any „Slow Cinema“ movies.

Genius, but as every other Genius he is/was not fully appreciated and understood! He is an artist and as any other artist he created art, which some people liked and the others didn’t!

Definitely underrated/not enough recognition, one of the greatest artists of his time and beyond, in my opinion.

Edit: If anyone knows electric composer Nicolas Jaar, he even did his own unofficial soundtrack to „the color of pomegranates“.