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Midlake: In Tune with the Times of Others

Andy Gill, The Independent, 5 February 2010

IN THE RUSSIAN visionary film-maker Andrei Tarkovsky's long, prismatic biopic of the great 15th-century icon painter Andrei Rublev, the monk Rublev strives to sustain the solitary, spiritual essence of his art in the face of an increasingly technological, repressive authoritarian regime.

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