The beautiful is hidden from the eyes of those who are not searching for the truth…

wow, only 15 votes...i think that speaks volumes about this website

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Hmmmm… it starts iff terribly and is boring as all hell for the first 75 mins. And in those 75 mins the visuals are not good.

It suddenly picks up and gets much better for the last half hour and is visually quite arresting.

However, it’s as pretentious as films get. It seems to think believe itself to be of profound philosophical impact and it just isn’t. Much like the rest of Tarkovsky’s films.

It’s much better than the awful Stalker and the interminable Andrei Rublev, but that isn’t saying much.

Solar is is Tarkovsky’s best work. Though it is not free of his characteristic pretentiousness.

If you decide to skip this, you won’t be missing much at all.

5/10

“Mirror” revisits the thoughts and memories of a dying poet in random order, with continuous time leaps, old newsreel footage, and people’s faces overlapping each other (the mother becomes the wife, the man becomes the child, etc.). An obviously autobiographical film by Tarkovksy, who recalls his childhood days spent in the countryside during the war, the separation from his wife and child, and above all, the strong influence his mother had on his life. You would think Tarkovsky is the dying poet here, but the poems are written and recited by his father, who also happened to have abandoned his wife to later came back in an attempt to take his son away with him.

Different timelines, places, people, and cinematography techniques, all blended together in a chaotic yet visually powerful stream of consciousness.

What did I just watch .I’m not sure what went on. There is no story you could follow. This movie requires such an effort on the viewer's part. I can see it is an artsy movie. It's the kind of movie that's just not for everyone.

The original title of the film is Zerkalo.