Our 6th and final film in our Summer Series comes to us from the inimitable Andrei Tarkovsky, the great Soviet director whose films were suppressed for years. We will be watching Mirror.
Mirror is a 1975 Soviet drama film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. It is loosely autobiographical, unconventionally structured, and incorporates poems composed and read by the director's father, Arseny Tarkovsky. The film features Margarita Terekhova, Ignat Daniltsev, Alla Demidova, Anatoly Solonitsyn, Tarkovsky's wife Larisa Tarkovskaya and his mother Maria Vishnyakova.
Mirror is structured in a form of a nonlinear narrative. It unfolds around memories recalled by a dying poet of key moments in his life and in Soviet culture. The film combines contemporary scenes with childhood memories, dreams, and newsreel footage. Its cinematography slips between color, black and white, and sepia. The film's loose flow of oneiric images has been compared with the stream of consciousness technique associated with modernist literature.
Mirror initially polarized critics and audiences, with many finding its narrative incomprehensible. Since its release, it has been reappraised as one of the greatest films of all time, as well as Tarkovsky's magnum opus.
We will be meeting Thursday, August 29th at 5:30 pm.
Here's a trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2U9TXmYJ94&ab_channel=FilmatLincolnCenter
Hope to see you there!
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