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 Mirror (DVD)
Description: Genre: Drama / Theatrical Release: 1975 / Director: Andrei Tarkovsky / Actors: Ignat Daniltsev, Anatoly Solonitsyn ... ... more  Mirror (DVD) ... / DVD released 29 July, 2002 at Artificial Eye / Features of the DVD: Black & White, Colour, Full Screen, PALNewest Review: ... with a narrative that lacks description. The film in part portrays Tarkovsky’s lost innocence and his emotionally neglected ... more ... childhood in Russia during the cold damp days of Soviet rule. His parents divorced while he was still a child.
It is not the most accessible of films but if you like to be challenged by cinematographic poetry that is at times breathtaking then you will discover wonderful moments in this film. The film makes use of flashbacks that are expressed in the beautiful chromatic shifts that Tarkovsky often uses in many of his films. The best way to approach this film would be like the reading of a poem which you might not f...more |
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Mirror (DVD): Transcendental Cinema of the Soul (646 words)
by Zmugzy - written on 15/01/06 (Very useful, 161 readings)
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Andrei Tarkovsky was born in Zavrzhe in 1932 in what is now Belarus. He was the son of the poet Arseni Tarkovski and the actress Maria Ivanovna. His father's poetry features in Mirror and his mother appears in the film when Margarita Terekhova, the leading actress of the film, looks at her own reflection only to see herself appear as an old lady. Mirror is Tarkovsky's visually transcendent masterpiece made in the 1970s. It is a Russian film and therefore subtitled. Mirror is an autobiographical montage of the directors life that abandons any sense of a linear narrative. One might say that it takes the form of a stream of consciousness. There is no ...
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