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| | 'Best of World Cinema' UK DVDs - Mirror [1974] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) |
 | | Tarkovsky's memories as well as those of his mother are intermingled as a dark, sumptuous, and dreamlike pre-World War II Russia is evoked, accompanied throughout by the voice of Tarkovsky's father reading his own elegiac poetry. |
 | | As the timeline shifts between the narrator's generation and his mother's, newsreel footage of Russian wars, triumphs, and disasters are juxtaposed with imagined scenes from the past, present, and future, crafting a silently lucid cinematic panopticon of memory, history, and nature. |
 | | Tarkovsky's films are accessible to everyone (maybe he was a real communist!), not just aloof art house enthusiasts. |
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