Zerkalo (Mirror), Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975.
The woman, water, maternity. Some incredible images I didn´t remember. for example one of the first scenes where the children are, when the house in front of theirs is burning, the children come from the table where they were eating and stop in front of the door where the house is on fire, a curtain hangs and flies with the wind in between us and the children, a huge bottle of water, size of the smaller child, is by their side. beauty. and some scenes I am sure I haven´t ever seen (maybe a problem of transposition to another media?). many small details.
the children, after being mother I had another perception of them. the camera has eyes only for her. the mother. also all the others are there, most of the time that´s what we see. and himself. small, 3 years old. a bit older, the feet full of mud.
love. that can not be complete, it has to be apart. the father is always coming and going away.
also the whole time the beautiful different kind of films gives variegated moods and atsmophere for the light (its so powerful here, much fire) there is a moment this is so clear because it´s opposite to one another, and it´s a “dialogue”: two women arguing, when the camera is on the face of one of them the film has a green colour, the other´s more blue or gray. he paints with the colours of his scenes. in this case it gives a very nervous rhythm, hectic.
I guess the films are treated in a way to change their colour? or would be different kind of films? I have no idea how this is made in terms of material, but for me do not seem like just a light effect. I see it on the quality of the material itself, but maybe I am wrong. IF someone there has any idea, please, welcome!
and yesterday he said in a interview they played there, the only authours on the cinema will be the ones that create its own world. like poets. and not those who only reproduces our world.
A very new thing for me was when he said his movies are to be an spiritual meeting between the essence of people (also this should be alike with all real art, I think, I didn´t know he used to say this so declared, also one of the actors was there at the first day said the same, that T. used to say people should experience a moving on their spiritual being with them.
and at the end of the doc. yesterday they notice something very poetic and very dear to me: if we take the first scene of _Ivan´s Childhood_ (considered his first movie) and the last scene of _The Sacrifice_ (his last one), his whole work happens between the images of a boy by the side of a tree.
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