THE MIRROR

Tarkovsky’s most autobiographical film, THE MIRROR is a stunning mixture of dream and recollection, color and monochrome, mystical and physical images of nature. A man whom we do not see sifts through personal memories, fantasies, collective societal memories, and bits of his own melancholy present. Focusing on a woman who is at times a mother, at times a wife, the story moves from a prewar rural setting through two wars (the Spanish Civil War and World War II) to a postwar present. In Russian with English subtitles. 35mm. (Phil M. Zender)