LGM Film Club, Part 322: Mirror

Do you like your brilliant film nearly plot-free, elliptical, beautifully shot, and yet amazingly touching? I don’t know to what extent anyone watches Tarkovsky anymore. It’s hard to imagine a director more anti-Marvel Era than Tarkovsky–as Soderbergh and Clooney found out when they made a credible and reasonably good remake of Solaris and it was despised by the public. This is not the era of interest in CGI-free shots of wind blowing through grass, spoken poetry over rural scenes, or long lingering shots of women trying to make it through the world. But Mirror remains high on the Sight and Sound Critics List and for good reason (Stalker and Andrei Rublev are also in the top 100, though I’d put both Solaris and The Sacrifice above both of them). It’s just astounding. I watched it again the other night and remained as enthralled as I was when I first saw it in the late 90s. Alas, probably no one under the age of 40 has ever seen it…..

Whole thing is streaming on YouTube, so watch it now or to the gulag with you!