I watched *Battleship Potemkin* last year when Russia started the war with Ukraine. Now, I watched *A man with a movie camera* hoping to gain a better understanding of this region by viewing it from a different angle. A region that is so close, so European and yet so far away. In *Battleship Potemkin* you learn a lot about Russia. This movie isn't as educative. I still enjoyed the historic pictures of a bygone era. Music is also great (watched the Michael Nyman version). It's not even a traditional movie. It's an eclectic mix of often isolated short scenes. I must stop saying this everytime I watch an old b/w movie, but: b/w looks fantastic. It's like the video or photo slideshow of your vacation you always tried to shoot but always failed to do. You need to be a special kind of avant-garde artist to produce such a movie. Some of the scenes could very well be Kraftwerk music video.

It's also a very Soviet movie. He pictures a lot of industry, heavy machines, means of mass transportation, modern tech, hard working men and women, proletarians.

I can't rank this movie by the usual standards. It's probably a 10 though. Simply for its style, its historic value and its impact. You should watch this movie once. I can't guarantee you will like it.