Mirror (1975)
(Zerkalo)
Country: USSR
Technical: bw/col 106m
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Cast: Innokenti Smoktunovsky, Margarita Terekhova
Synopsis:
A man looks back from the post-war period over his childhood and wartime experiences, which are alternated with those of his mother.
Review:
The director's 'nightmare' film poem is so autobiographical in substance and stream of consciousness in structure as to be followed only by its maker; as such it is to be approached with a completely open mind and heart. Tarkovsky's father reads his own poems in voiceover, and a number of scenes recall motifs from other films, a burning barn and a levitation, for example. Typically of the director's work, it is both very slow and yet full of flashes of technique allied to a very personal vision of the world.
(Zerkalo)
Country: USSR
Technical: bw/col 106m
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Cast: Innokenti Smoktunovsky, Margarita Terekhova
Synopsis:
A man looks back from the post-war period over his childhood and wartime experiences, which are alternated with those of his mother.
Review:
The director's 'nightmare' film poem is so autobiographical in substance and stream of consciousness in structure as to be followed only by its maker; as such it is to be approached with a completely open mind and heart. Tarkovsky's father reads his own poems in voiceover, and a number of scenes recall motifs from other films, a burning barn and a levitation, for example. Typically of the director's work, it is both very slow and yet full of flashes of technique allied to a very personal vision of the world.
(Zerkalo)
Country: USSR
Technical: bw/col 106m
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Cast: Innokenti Smoktunovsky, Margarita Terekhova
Synopsis:
A man looks back from the post-war period over his childhood and wartime experiences, which are alternated with those of his mother.
Review:
The director's 'nightmare' film poem is so autobiographical in substance and stream of consciousness in structure as to be followed only by its maker; as such it is to be approached with a completely open mind and heart. Tarkovsky's father reads his own poems in voiceover, and a number of scenes recall motifs from other films, a burning barn and a levitation, for example. Typically of the director's work, it is both very slow and yet full of flashes of technique allied to a very personal vision of the world.