I saw this movie,knowing that Tarkovski isn't an amusing filmmaker.Still I thought that it would be necessary to see it,since "Zerkalo" is highly regarded as a cinematic masterpiece.
Maybe it was because this was my first Tarkovski experience,but it bored me quite a bit.It's not that I don't appreciate "quality or better" film (I really adore the movies of Satyajit Ray,Ken Loach,Paul Auster,Federico Fellini,Luis Bunuel and Woody Allen for instance),on the contrary: I really like the "better" film. Still,this one didn't satisfy me.OK,it has got some fine cinematic touches to it and,it has to be said,the film is quite unique since Tarkovski's own father and mother have important parts in the movie (the father as narrator of his own poems! and his mother plays the role of his own mother in the movie) and since the movie is pretty much an autobiographical piece.
I'm not completely anti-Tarkovski now,I really want to see other movies of him but it wasn't up to my expectations.To me Tarkovski was a little bit too much of a Bergman-imitation.(there are some people who say that he is just that but I can't concur with that since I haven't seen his other work.)
What I will do is,maybe in a couple of years,to see "Zerkalo" once again knowing what kind of movie it is. 6/10
Maybe it was because this was my first Tarkovski experience,but it bored me quite a bit.It's not that I don't appreciate "quality or better" film (I really adore the movies of Satyajit Ray,Ken Loach,Paul Auster,Federico Fellini,Luis Bunuel and Woody Allen for instance),on the contrary: I really like the "better" film. Still,this one didn't satisfy me.OK,it has got some fine cinematic touches to it and,it has to be said,the film is quite unique since Tarkovski's own father and mother have important parts in the movie (the father as narrator of his own poems! and his mother plays the role of his own mother in the movie) and since the movie is pretty much an autobiographical piece.
I'm not completely anti-Tarkovski now,I really want to see other movies of him but it wasn't up to my expectations.To me Tarkovski was a little bit too much of a Bergman-imitation.(there are some people who say that he is just that but I can't concur with that since I haven't seen his other work.)
What I will do is,maybe in a couple of years,to see "Zerkalo" once again knowing what kind of movie it is. 6/10