Mirror
The From Below Microcinema will be showing Andrei Tarkovsky’s Mirror (1975) on Wednesday, 4/3, at 7:00pm
Here is the link to reserve a seat. Doors will open at 6:50 and we’re starting the movie at 7:10!
One of the many Tarkovsky masterpieces, Mirror (1975) non-linearly slips between scenes from the memories of a poet on his deathbed. It’s a gorgeous film, intimate and personal: Tarkovsky shot part of the movie in a replica of his childhood home he had built upon the actual foundations where it had once been. His mother and wife appear in the film, too, and his father reads his own poetry as the voice of the dying poet. Tarkovsky’s exhuming dive backwards into the misty realm of childhood and the life of his mother, covering decades of history in the Soviet Union, gives us a quiet meditation on time, memory, and motherhood.
I saw Mirror early into the lockdown of 2020 on a little laptop screen in my bed. At the time I was having the most vibrant dreams I’ve ever had in my life. The film’s fragmented images left a major impression on me, and I’m excited for the chance to finally revisit the film, on a much larger screen this time, with a crowd. Part two, I suppose, after Cemetery of Splendor, of a “sleepy sick man dreaming” series.