I. Danilʹt͡sev
1) Mirror
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Russian
Formats
Description
In a richly textured collage of varying film stocks and newsreel footage, the recollections of a dying poet flash before the eyes, his dreams mingling with scenes of childhood, wartime, and marriage, all imbued with the mystical power of a trance. Largely dismissed by Soviet critics on its release because of its elusive narrative structure, Mirror has since taken its place as one of the director₂s most renowned and influential works, a stunning...
2) Zerkalo
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
Russian
Description
Tarkovsky's looking glass is not merely cracked but shattered and we see the jagged, jumbled reflections of its shards, images of Tarkovsky's childhood mixed with fragments of his adult life--a child's wartime exile, a mother's experience with political terror, the breakup of a marriage, life in a country home--all intermingled with slow-motion dream sequences and poetic chunks of stark newsreels.