The Mirror [1974 film]
by Andrei Tarkovsky, Aleksandr Misharin (Screenwriter)
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"A subtly ravishing passage through the halls of time and memory, Andrei Tarkovsky's sublime reflection on twentieth-century Russian history is as much a poem composed in images, or a hypnagogic hallucination, as it is a work of cinema. In a richly textured collage of varying film stocks and newsreel footage, the recollections of a dying poet flash before our eyes, his dreams mingling with scenes of childhood, wartime, and marriage, all imbued with the mystical power of a trance. Largely show more dismissed by Soviet critics on its release because of its elusive narrative structure, Mirror has since taken its place as one of the director's most renowned and influential works, a stunning personal statement from an artist transmitting his innermost thoughts and feelings directly from psyche to screen"--Container. show lessTags
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Un uomo morente sulla quarantina ricorda il suo passato. La sua infanzia, sua madre, la guerra, i momenti personali e le cose che raccontano la storia recente di tutta la nazione russa.
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