Mirror

Mirror

  • Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Writer: Aleksandr Misharin,Arseniy Tarkovskiy,Andrei Tarko
  • Countries of origin: Soviet Union
  • Language: Russian, Spanish
  • Release date: March 7, 1975
  • Sound mix: Mono
  • Aspect ratio: 1.37 : 1
  • Also known as: The Mirror
  • "Zerkalo" is a Soviet drama film directed by Andrey Arsenyevich Tarkovsky , starring Margarita Terkova, and released in the Soviet Union in April 1975.
    The film is an autobiographical film, completely abandoning plot clues, through the memories of the teenager, it tells about the childhood lost in childhood, the memories of family members, and the calling of family affection.

    Details

    • Release date March 7, 1975
    • Filming locations Tuchkovo, Ruzskiy District, Moscow Oblast, Russia
    • Production companies Mosfilm

    Box office

    Budget

    RUR 622,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $22,168

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $11,537

    Gross worldwide

    $119,266

    Movie reviews

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    • By Lupe 2022-04-24 07:01:16

      Mirror

      Watch a movie on and off. After living by it, I don't have the mood to watch movies anymore. On a weekend afternoon a long time ago, I lay lazily in bed watching this "Mirror". The movie is just like the rhythm of weekend life, loose but at ease. I was ashamed to look at it and fell asleep (a bit like "burning a piano and boiling a crane"), and I remembered that the afternoon I slept very comfortably, it was more arbitrary than falling asleep reading a book, and it came as smoothly...

    • By Hayden 2022-04-24 07:01:16

      The hazy babble of waking up

      To be honest, I can't figure out a complete and logical story from the film, and I have no such intention, and even refuse to read articles about the interpretation of the plot.

      For me, Tarkovsky's "Mirror" already has the ethereal, ambiguous and extremely personal qualities of dreams and poems. The director cut open his personal sincerity, what hides is his own past, his thoughts and his imagination, and at the moment I watch it, all his past, my thoughts and my imagination are...

    • By Isabell 2022-04-24 07:01:16

      Immediate records (research data)

      Four and a half stars; instant recording is convenient to help you sort out the lens relationship associative memory, involving spoilers

      [Purely to help personal learning]

      The mirror starts with a teenager being hypnotized and looking at the camera? Close-up, long-shot, like Monet's oil painting, a strong wind blows, the man turns back twice, leaves, walks away, the child Put candy on the cat's head In the dark, the narration is like chanting, expressing the loneliness of...

    • By Calista 2022-04-24 07:01:16

      So it's a mirror left to the viewer?

      The first time, very unusual, although the director will say, just straight-line understanding. But it consists of more than a dozen very personal memory/dream fragments, with some recurring elements and scenes: the wind blowing through the bushes on the edge of the forest, spilled milk and potatoes. To a certain extent, listening to the trivialities of other people's lives is very tiring for me, but the interspersed grand music and poetry, lining the storytelling, will alleviate it...

    • By Brice 2022-04-24 07:01:16

      Mirror

      The mother took me from the young mother. Under war and politics? , my mother could not give me true love, the alienation was always there. Then at the end, in the imagination of the child's death, the flying bird, I lay with the young mother. On the other hand, my mother took me out of the hut and went to another or a better world. My mother and I have both reconciled. And the young mother's tears, "Do you want a boy or a girl?", were also relieved. The natural and the man-made...

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    • By Idell 2023-09-29 14:35:08

      In order to face the soul to the greatest extent, the method of forcibly turning the chapter was adopted, which ultimately proved to only fall into an unconscious...

    • By Theron 2023-09-07 14:50:27

      Fragments of those old documentaries, interspersed with reality, dreams, and memories, show that individuals, families, countries, and society are juxtaposed. This is really Soviet. Of course, this film is very personal, showing Laota's private side, but Laota also made a work that can resonate with the audience, just like good art should be personal first, and then infect the public. Although the film is indeed not easy to understand, I personally feel very comfortable watching it. The last...

    • By Madonna 2023-09-02 22:07:36

      The film is, as its name suggests, a mirror. I saw myself and my mother. "Children raised by women" can feel it. This is the most beautiful movie I've ever seen. It's my first Tarkovsky, otherwise I might not make up for his film. Watching "Sculpting Time" today, a physics researcher sent a very good statement to Director Ta: "This movie is about you, your father, your grandfather, and someone who is still alive after your death. It's the "you". It is about people who live on the earth. He is a...

    • By Joaquin 2023-08-18 22:28:33

      Eliminate narrative and interpretation, and form is content. There are some things that the director himself is difficult to understand, which is the place that language cannot reach. Only in the form of images. Cinema is a radical departure from literature and drama. Mutual life and mutual restraint with his mother, and finally returned to his mother's arms. There is love and regret, and there is the beginning of life. Can be watched over and over...

    • By Stone 2023-08-12 18:26:39

      The greatest literary thought of literary youth in film history. Memories = childhood = mother = rural field = spiritual homeland, does Tarkovsky have an Oedipus complex, why does my mother always have tears in her eyes, is it for the time that has passed? Music has the catalytic effect of divine revelation. The specific feelings didn't sync with his memories. In the memory of history, Mao Zedong and the Red Guards appeared in surprise. 【1000th movie...

    Movie plot

    The film is an autobiographical film. The film completely ignores the plot clues and directly shows the memories of the teenager: the young Andrey Arsenyevich Tarkovsky walked in the mud with his young mother to a relative's house to borrow money, staying alone in a strange room. In silence, he found Zerkalo and saw himself in Zerkalo. The camera moved closer to the face in Zerkalo, and then to the face outside Zerkalo, Bach's music...
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    Evaluation action

    Among Tarkovsky's seven feature films, "Zerkalo" is the most proficient use of Tarkovsky's nonlinear narrative. In the dreamlike "Zerkalo", the director only retains the necessary imagery without any explanation. At the same time, the images are misplaced in the sequence of the images, constructing a fragmented collage narrative similar to "Broken Mirror Recirculation", but not The icy permutations and combinations are based on the...
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    Movie quotes

    • Father: It seems to make me return to the place, poignantly dear to my heart, where my grandfather's house used to be in which I was born 40 years ago right on the dinner table. Each time I try to enter it, something prevents me from doing that. I see this dream again and again. And when I see those walls made of logs and the dark entrance, even in my dream I become aware that I'm only dreaming it. And the overwhelming joy is clouded by anticipation of awakening. At times something happens and I stop dreaming of the house and the pine trees of my childhood around it. Then I get depressed. And I can't wait to see this dream in which I'l be a child again and feel happy again because everything will still be ahead, everything will be possible...

    • Forensic doctor: You know, I fell and found strange things here - roots, bushes... Has it ever occurred to you that plants can feel, know, even comprehend? The trees, this hazelnut bush...

      Natalya: This is an alder tree.

      Forensic doctor: It doesn't matter. They don't run about. Like us who are rushing, fussing, uttering banalities. That's because we don't trust nature that is inside us. Always this suspiciousness, haste, and no time to stop and think.