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Saturday, Jul 5, 2025
7 PM (106 mins)
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Sunday, Aug 17, 2025
7 PM (106 mins)
BAMPFA
Mirror
(Zerkalo)
(The Mirror)
featuring
Margarita Terekhova, Filipp Yankovsky, Oleg Yankovsky, Larisa Tarkovskaya,
Shards of memories—dreams of an individual, collective nightmares—do not merely haunt Andrei Tarkovsky’s most challenging work, they are the film, which invents, as Ingmar Bergman noted, “a new language, true to the nature of film . . . life as a dream.” Ostensibly an autobiographical portrait, Mirror also offers a crash course in twentieth-century history, as stock footage of world upheavals intertwine with images of childhood: a field, a fire in a rainstorm, a father’s voice, a mother. “Words cannot express a person’s emotions; they are too inert,” insists a poem written and read by Tarkovsky’s father. Tarkovsky’s art, however, does just that.
FILM DETAILS
Screenwriter
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Aleksandr Misharin
Cinematographer
- Georgi Rerberg
Language
- Russian
- with English subtitles
Print Info
- B&W/Color
- 35mm
- 106 mins
Source
- Kino Lorber
Permission
- Janus Films
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