SCREENING IN THE BERNARD OSHER FOUNDATION AUDITORIUM
“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.”
106 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. In Russian and Spanish with English subtitles. DCP.
Screening as part of “Fall of ‘75,” a celebration of some of the greatest films from one of cinema’s greatest years.
A senses-ravishing odyssey through the halls of time and memory, Andrei Tarkovsky’s sublime reflection on 20th century Russian history is as much a film as it is a poem composed in images, as much a work of cinema as it is a hypnagogic hallucination. In a richly textured collage of varying film stocks and newsreel footage, the recollections of a dying poet flash before our eyes, dreams mingling with scenes of childhood, wartime, and marriage, all imbued with the mystic power of a trance. Largely dismissed by Soviet critics upon its release due to its elusive narrative structure, Mirror has since taken its place as one of the titan director’s most renowned and influential works, a stunning personal statement from an artist transmitting his innermost thoughts and feelings directly from psyche to screen.
ADDITIONAL SCREENINGS in this series:
Mirror: Saturday, October 4 at 3 p.m.
Picnic at Hanging Rock: Saturday, October 11 at 3 p.m.
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom: Saturday, November 1 at 3 p.m.
Nashville: Saturday, November 15 at 3 p.m.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: Saturday, November 29 at 3 p.m.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: Sunday, November 30 at 12 p.m.
Manila in the Claws of Light: Saturday, December 6 at 3 p.m.
India Song: Saturday, December 13 at 3 p.m.