Mirror

The next segment features the boy Ignat, alone in his father’s house. Just that detail alone creates an air of sadness. Here is a boy who has been abandoned by his father, seeing him on one of those rare occasions, and he can’t even find time to be

I wish to stop narrating “Mirror,” because it feels like describing someone else’s dream. The characters purposefully blend, father and sons are interchangeable, the mother and ex-wife are played by the same actress. Strange discussions about whether the son should keep living with his mother or go with his

Towards the end of this segment, that focuses on one event in Maria’s career at a publishing house, a character quotes Dante’s Inferno, but could very well be describing the experience of watching “Mirror” — Midway upon the journey of our life. I found myself within a forest dark

Tarkovsky held one of the strangest rationales for religious faith that I’ve ever heard. He was born in the Soviet Union and his family was not religious. But he came to believe over time that cultures without religion suffer in their art, so he had faith because he thought

In numerous interviews, Andrei Tarkovsky called “Mirror” a film about his mother. But should we believe him? By this I don’t mean that he’s lying to us. Rather, I think Tarkovsky is ignoring all of the pieces of “Mirror” he assembled through the years that don’t involve