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Mirror is a 1975 Soviet avant-garde drama film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky and written by Tarkovsky and Aleksandr Misharin. The film features Margarita Terekhova, Ignat Daniltsev, Alla Demidova, Anatoly Solonitsyn, Tarkovsky's wife Larisa Tarkovskaya, and his mother Maria Vishnyakova. Innokenty Smoktunovsky contributed voiceover dialogue and Eduard Artemyev composed incidental music and sound effects.
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I must admit, I'm not much of a fan of Tarkovsky's works. While his films are riddled with philosophical elements and are rich in poetry, I find that most of them just aren't really my thing, but there is one film of his that I find myself returning to every now and then, and that film is his 1975 film Mirror. This is a film that seems heavily reflective, one that gives the perspective of someone that has an incredi…More
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This is a cross post of @nazirullsafry/tarskovsky-at-last-mirror-1975 by @nazirullsafry. A thought upon the viewing of Tsarkovsky's 1975 MirrorMore
When it is not didactic, let alone pornographic. When it is near epiphany moving towards the sublime. The master poet. Transporting from frame to frame like one masterpiece painting to another. "He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows." - Joseph Campbell And the art is indeed the reflection of yourself.More
Tarkovsky thinks that the director's work is "sculpting in time": the creation of a complete "piece of time" made from a vast number of living truths, where anything unnecessarily is absolutely eliminated. " As the sculptor in matter creates a form, so the director, according to Tarkovsky, "from the indifference of the many times that surround us creates a unique, live-time film, guided by the idea of a future wor…More