THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES

THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES (1969, Connoisseur, unrated, subtitled, $79.95) Abandoning traditional narrative techniques like linear storytelling and characterization, the late Sergei Paradjanov made movies that were unlike any others. This freely associative tale of a medieval Armenian troubadour exerts a strange, sensual, druggie spell. Paradjanov's films, surreal, often minimalist, are like performance art and are for the intellectually adventurous only. Pomegranates, in its refusal to give the viewer any bearings at all, may be heavy going even for fans. B-LO'T