Mirror (EOTWS)

End Of The Week Shorts #47 extract: Mirror (1975)

Watch Tarkovsky, watch Tarkovsky, watch Tarovsky and then watch Tarkovsky without subtitles. 

The construction of visual time-sculptures is what Tarkovsky is all about. Narrative, character and dialogue plays a crucial role in this, but they are all subservient to the transcendental tone Tarkovsky captures through cinematography and camera movement. Take the time to learn about narrative, character and dialogue with a few watches of Mirror, reading the subtitles and being entirely confounded. Then simply experience everything that is so foreign about the film without subtitles. Reduced to a child, and yet spoken to as if you were a wise old man/woman, Mirror conjures incredible poetic magnetism, drowning you through an existential utterance alluding to the omnipotent mother and father that will leave you stuttering. Tarkovsky, a master; Mirror, a masterpiece.