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1974

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Starring	Margarita Terekhova, Ignat Daniltsev, Larisa Tarkovskaya
Director	Andrei Tarkovsky
Genres	Drama, World Cinema

Mirror

With THE MIRROR, legendary Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky crafts perhaps his most profound and compelling film. What started off for Tarkovsky as a planned series of interviews with his own mother evolved into a lyrical and complex circular meditation on love, loyalty, memory, and history. Time shifts and generations merge as a single extraordinary actress (Margarita Terekhova) plays the narrator's former wife as well as his mother. Tarkovsky's memories as well as those of his mother are intermingled as a dark, sumptuous, and dreamlike pre-World War II Russia is evoked, accompanied throughout by the voice of Tarkovsky's father reading his own elegiac poetry. The spectacle of nature and its ubiquitous and ever-shifting presence is captured by Tarkovsky's camera as if by magic--the family cabin nestled deep in the verdant woods, a barn on fire in the middle of a gentle rainstorm, a gigantic wind enveloping a man as he walks through a wheat field--all creating indelible images with deep if mysterious emotional resonance. As the timeline shifts between the narrator's generation and his mother's, newsreel footage of Russian wars, triumphs, and disasters are juxtaposed with imagined scenes from the past, present, and future, crafting a silently lucid cinematic panopticon of memory, history, and nature.

Starring	Margarita Terekhova, Ignat Daniltsev, Larisa Tarkovskaya
Director	Andrei Tarkovsky
Studio	FUSION MEDIA
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 42 mins
Certificate
Genres	Drama, World Cinema
Language	DVD: Russian
Subtitles	DVD: English
Released	Production year: 1974 To Rent: DVD: 29 Jul 2002

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- "...[A] radiant, sublime dream of a film....THE MIRROR can be regarded as the work of a man who has found his voice and learned to express himself in his own powerful way..."
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- - Los Angeles Times
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:58
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  Tarkovsky - wow.
  
  I've seen all of Tarkovsky's films. In particular, the string of 4 films he made (Andrei Rublev, Solaris, Mirror, Stalker) in a row are an absolutely ... read more »
  
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  - 26 Apr 2005 at 21:22
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  Try "Enter The Void" if you like this film
  
  I watched this upon the critics who reviewed 'Enter The Void' by Gaspar Noe's recommendation. I can see the similarities between the two film but ... read more »
  
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  I didn't get it at all
  
  There seem to be two types of reviews of this film on here, those that 'got it' and those of us that didn't. It is a stream of consciousness very ... read more »
  
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  Awful nonsense
  
  This film is AWFUl, made no sense what so ever, probably had some deep meaning that I missed but there isn't even a story, the subtitls run too fast and ... read more »
  
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  With THE MIRROR, legendary Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky crafts perhaps his most profound and compelling film. What started off for Tarkovsky as a planned series of interviews with his own mother evolved into a lyrical and complex circular meditation on love, loyalty, memory, and history. Time ...