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Mirror (1974)

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01:35-03:45 Mon 11th Nov 2019 140m
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Synopsis

Cinema doesn't get much more personal than this. Casting his mother as the old woman and using his famous father, Arseni Tarkovsky's poetry on the soundtrack, director Andrei Tarkovsky draws on childhood memories, artistic fantasies and actual events to explore the ways in which the history of his country impinged on the lives of three generations of his family. It's a bewildering blend of documentary footage and stylised imagery, that can only be described as cinematic poetry. Some of the references are decidedly obscure and it takes considerable concentration to keep in step. An awesome achievement, nevertheless.