RU-M005-1975

Mirror -- LOCATED IN I.A.S. OFFICE

Video

VHS

International Studies

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"It is not that i don't want to be understood," Tarkovsky told a british journalist in 1982. "But I can't like spielberg, say, make a film for the general public. I'd be mortified if I discovered I could". The Mirror mixes apparently personal anecdotes - a child's wartme exile, a mother's experience of political terror, a divorcing couple's quarrel - with slow motion dream sequences and poetic chunks of stark newsreels 9the bombing of Barcelona, the Chinese cultural revolution, a boy cured of his stutter through hypnosis.) The big budget film poem is underscored by his fantastically precise manipulation of images and recorded sound and his trademark of camera move: as J. Hoberman describes it, - "an overhead tortoise crawl, preferably telephoto, across some piece of soggy terrain, a river bed f forest floor covered with lichen, bottles, rusty tools, and assorted moldy detritus." After its first screening for the 1975 Moscow film festival, the film became a legend and hailed as a masterpiece by te audience everywhere. Notes: Russian with english subtitles. Director: Andrei Tarkovsky. Actors: Margarita Terekhova . Color. Country: Russia. Subtitled. (I.A.S. now located in Old McMillan 254.)