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| | Artificial Eye -Nostalgia- ART033 DVD (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Arriving at a Tuscan village spa with Eugenia, his beautiful Italian interpreter, Gorchakov is visited by memories of Russia and of his wife and children, and encounters the local mystic, who sets him a challenging task. |
 | | The film is filled with mysterious and extraordinary images: a flock of birds springing from a statue of the Madonna; flooded church ruins; Gorchakov's life and death struggle to cross the pool, filmed in a single take; and the final shot, where all the film's images coalesce into a miraculous whole. |
 | | As in all Tarkovsky's films, nature and the elements of fire and water, music, painting and poetry, and the contrast of fl and white and colour photography, all play a major role. |
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