The Mirror
The Mirror
Zerkalo
Directed by:
Andrei Arsenyevich TarkovskyScreenplay:
Andrei Arsenyevich TarkovskyCinematography:
Georgij RerbergComposer:
Eduard ArtemyevCast:
Margarita Těrechova, Oleg Yankovskiy, Filipp Yankovskiy, Ignat Daniltsev, Nikolay Grinko, Алла Демидова, Anatoly Solonitsyn, Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy (more)Plots(1)
One of Andrei Tarkovsky’s most influential works, a mesmerizing collage of his own memories and dreams. A subtly ravishing passage through the halls of time and memory, this sublime reflection on twentieth-century Russian history by Andrei Tarkovsky is as much a poem composed in images, or a hypnagogic hallucination, as it is a work of cinema. In a richly textured collage of varying film stocks and newsreel footage, the recollections of a dying poet flash before our eyes, his dreams mingling with scenes of childhood, wartime, and marriage, all imbued with the mystical power of a trance. (Criterion)
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And again, one of those movies that I will have to watch again sometime to fully appreciate its greatness, because I haven't appreciated it yet. Tarkovsky attempted a slightly different approach, it's even more philosophical and abstract, and it simply didn't sit well with me. The images are interesting, as well as the intertwining of techniques, but I only consider it as interesting.
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