Arseni Tarkovsky, Filipp Yankovsky, Ignat Daniltsev
The director mixes flashbacks, historical footage and original poetry to illustrate the reminiscences of a dying man about his childhood during World War II, adolescence, and a painful divorce in his ...( read more
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DVD Release Date: March 21, 2000
Stats: 445 reviews
9/10
Dizzying. Haunting. Adventurous. Thought-provoking. Confusing. All perfect adjectives when describing this film. Frankly, I need to see it again in order to fully understand it all.
It's said that Tarkovsky's films are as close as the cinema has come to poetry, and after only seeing one Tarkovsky film I have to agree.
The film is biographical therefore highly personal for Tarkovsky, but even to the viewer this is a haunting and moving piece of cinema.
Th...( read more)
I could probably make something of this if I gave it another chance, but I'm not sure I liked it enough to do so.
Not an easy film to watch but still an incredible film and very poetic also.
I didn't find anything here, in terms of shared insights, that I would call coherent. Its like a cryptic, fragmented little journal. Bits, bursting with meaning, but this meaning is SO personal, SO little is done to translate it into the realm of the universal, that its almost ...( read more)
One of five immensely 'difficult' films made by Tarkovsky between 'Solaris' and his death, 'Mirror' uses cinema to do things that are completely different from Hllywood, or even 'conventional film culture'. This, like the films of Bresson, is what the cinema would have been like...( read more)
Here's one of those movies that I just didn't get. It's pretty to look at and I enjoyed watching it but I couldn't tell you what it was about or even get a sense of what it was about. It's something I may have to watch again sometime down the road. I'll probably be thinking ab...( read more)
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