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Zerkalo the mirror

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  • "The mirror"
  • "Andrei Tarkovsky's haunting masterpiece The mirror"
  • "Looking glass"
  • "Andrei Tarkovsky's The mirror"
  • "Mirror"
  • "Looking-glass"

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  • "A film in which the protagonistsʹs life is reflected and refracted through childhood memory."
  • "Tarkovsky's looking glass is not merely cracked but shattered and we see the jagged, jumbled reflections of its shards, imges 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."
  • "Hailed by many as the celebrated Russian director Tarkovskii's greatest work. In this autobiographical film, an artist reflects on three generations and his relationship (both as child and adult) with his mother and father, and those with his wife and small son."
  • ""Tarkovsy uses his own coming-of-age experiences, himself 'mirror'-ed, to convey the mood and action that dominated a country ravaged by war. Through a fascinating two-tiered time frame, the director blends his own harsh childhood with an adult life that is troubled and broken ... [the film] becomes a stream of consciousness, nostalgic visions of childhood mixed with slow-motion dream sequences and stark WWII newsreels"--Container."
  • "Un homme de quarante ans, frappé par la maladie, se penche sur son passé. D'abord l'image de la mère attendant ce père que les enfants ne verront jamais. Puis surgit l'image de sa femme dont il est séparé. Enfin le fils paraît à son tour."
  • "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."
  • "This is Tarkovsky's most autobiographical work in which he reflects upon his own childhood and the destiny of the Russian people. The film's many layers intertwine real life and family relationships with memories of childhood, dreams and nightmares."
  • "Tarkovsky's autobiography is combined with fragments from his parents' biographies. His father, the poet, Arseny Tarkovsky, reads his poems on the soundtrack. In this essay on the interdependence of private and collective memories, Tarkovsky's memories and his childhood dreams and nightmares are interwoven with newsreels relevant to the period."
  • "Tarkovsky's mirror 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."

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  • "Foreign language films"
  • "Fiction films"
  • "Feature films"
  • "Biographical films"
  • "Drama"
  • "Video Collection (VHS)"

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  • "Zerkalo the mirror"
  • "Zerkalo The Mirror"
  • "Zerkalo The mirror"
  • "Зеркало Mirror"
  • "Zerkalo (Motion picture)"
  • "Zerkalo Mirror"

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