09 September 2011

The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975)

8/10
Andrei Tarkovsky's autobiographical stream-of-conscious film, it's probably as hard as anything to get into, just because of how personal it is. Indeed, the only one who would understand just how everything fits is Tarkovsky himself, the rest of us are on the outside looking in (I could make some flimsy 'mirror' allusion here but alas). Despite the lack of plot or coherance, Tarkovsky is such a magician that it's never a chore to watch what unfolds onscreen, and there are some remarkable images that I won't soon be able to forget.

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