A faceless narrator, divorced and the father of a child, reflects on his life: his destitute childhood in the country, his relationship with his mother, the failure of his marriage. Andrej Tarkovskij’s experimental cinematic essay is considered the brilliant director’s most personal work. He combines fictional scenes with historical footage, blends black-and-white and colour sequences, never using a linear structure: instead of representing classic narrative cinema, THE MIRROR turns out to be an intoxicating, poetic stream-of-thought.
A faceless narrator, divorced and the father of a child, reflects on his life: his destitute childhood in the country, his relationship with his mother, the failure of his marriage. Andrej Tarkovskij’s experimental cinematic essay is considered the brilliant director’s most personal work. He combines fictional scenes with historical footage, blends black-and-white and colour sequences, never using a linear structure: instead of representing classic narrative cinema, THE MIRROR turns out to be an intoxicating, poetic stream-of-thought.
