Mirror

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky

1975 / 106min / 35mm

Integrating original footage shot in both color and black and white, shard-like splinters of scenes whose significance isn’t always immediately evident, cryptically oneiric images, and even historical documentary footage, Tarkovsky’s transcendent epic of slippery subconscious connections employs consistently radical means and rhythmic cutting to tell the life’s story of a dying poet, as grasped in nonlinear flashes from his deathbed, as well recounting the travails of three generations of his family through several tumultuous decades of Russian history. “The film’s dream logic, its sustained sense of privacy and mystery, reasserts the intuition that yes, of course, nature is sentient, communicating apart from and beyond human striving.” —Michael Almereyda

Distributor: Janus Films