Mirror

5.00
    Mirror
    1975

    Synopsis

    A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.

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    Cast

    • Margarita TerekhovaNatalya / Maroussia - the Mother
    • Ignat DaniltsevIgnat / Alexei - 12 Years Old
    • Larisa TarkovskayaNadezha - Mother of 12-Year-Old Alexei
    • Alla DemidovaLisa
    • Anatoliy SolonitsynForensic Doctor
    • Nikolay GrinkoPrintery Director
    • Tamara OgorodnikovaNanny / Neighbour / Strange Woman at Tea Table
    • Yuriy NazarovRifle Shooting Instructor
    • Oleg YankovskiyThe Father
    • Filipp YankovskyAleksei - 5 Years Old

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Chicago Tribune

      Truly original and unique: genuine film poetry, full of spellbinding images and sequences. [20 Mar 1998, p.L]
    • 100

      The Irish Times

      Mirror is much copied, but as the recent run of Terrence Malick films demonstrates, eschewing time and plot for flotsam and psyche is much harder than Tarkovsky makes it look.
    • 90

      The New Yorker

      The smallest details (a stammering child, the wrinkle in the turned page of a book) stick like burrs, and we are left to wonder if any director has delved with more modesty and honesty into the heartbreak of the past.
    • 80

      BBC

      Cinema rarely gets this close to poetry in motion.
    • 80

      CineVue

      Tarkovsky possessed a sensibility for, and mastery over, the cinematic form that few directors – before or after – have been able to match; a mastery evident in almost every sublime frame of Mirror.
    • 80

      The New York Times

      Mirror, a new film by Andrei Tarkovsky, the controversial and unorthodox Soviet director, is delighting, puzzling, disaping serious Muscovite movie enthusiasts.
    • 80

      Empire

      Regardless of its dense intellectual and autobiographical content, however, Mirror can still be appreciated as an attempt to capture the human soul and to show that, for all our diverse individual experiences, we still have much in common on an emotional and spiritual level.
    • 80

      The Guardian

      A startling piece of film-making, floating free of the conventional demands of period and narrative.

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