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 | | For a first feature, "My Name Is Ivan" is masterly, from Tarkovsky's evocative choice of music and his precise editing to the extraordinarily moving performance he coaxes out of the brilliant young actor, Kolya Burlayev. |
 | | "My Name Is Ivan," of course, ends tragically, and the final frames of Ivan's exhilaration are mercilessly cut short by the director. |
 | | "My Name Is Ivan," at least, will never be remade; as most great films do, it speaks a language unto itself, but it does so with a clarity that viewers of any stripe will understand. |
| www.go-brooklyn.com /html/issues/_vol24/24_39/ivan.html (670 words) |
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