Andrei Tarkovsky - Mirror

[PatrickBellFilm]

Hey, if anyone would spare a couple of mins to watch my video called Catharsis and perhaps leave some feedback, that'd be great because it was an experimental piece and I'd love to know what people thought of it! And I'm not trying to spam, I'm just interested to see what people think. Thanks! ;)

[richardabbott1966]

It really never gets better than this! Hamlet, Macbeth, the Mona Lisa, Bach's Mass in B minor, the Godfather etc etc... Tarkovsky's best work surpasses all of them with with an ease that is almost indecent. He creates a beauty that most of us can only dream of (and we do if possible) I had a conversation recently with an American who firmly believed that Terminator 2 was the best film ever made. I said "what about Tarkovsky?" She said "Who?" I rest my case...

[WilliamBurner]

@richardabbott1966 As a nice anecdote here, Tarkovsky apparently praised Terminator 1, stating it was pushing the frontiers of cinema as an art. Considering the sequel was more intriguing and fine-tuned in some respects, the guy's belief may not be TOO far from the truth ;)

[richardabbott1966]

@WilliamBurner Interesting response and thanks for posting it. Maybe I should watch T2 again - it is a very good film after all. My comment was more about the Hollywood-centric worldview of the general public and perhaps I was being a bit too blinkered. Thanks again:)

[WilliamBurner]

@richardabbott1966 You're definitely right about the general focus on Hollywood, it took me years to overcome that myself;) As for Cameron, he's certainly an autheur working within that system, often employing all the possibilities it offers to great effect. I believe some films and directors are sadly overlooked, others sadly underappreciated by different camps, so I found Tarkovsky's appreciation for The Terminator just nice to hear in that regard. Thanks as well & enjoy the flick:)

[toomuchrose]

Profoundly beautiful and deeply moving.

A truly great movie by a real genius.

[DogfromReservoir]

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[GENdandyboy]

what does Stalker the game have anything to do with this :(

[olivepalm9]

@GENdandyboy Fortunately, nothing. Stalker was a seperate film by Tarkovsky, the game was loosely based on the idea of the film. But I would suggest watching the film if you haven't, because the game is dust compared to this man's celestial cinema.

[ierofant1000]

вот так и сгорело всё... иногда даже не верится в происходящее...

[aistras]

@ierofant1000 иногда лучше не верить

[kortexsirvasil]

The ultimate victory of form over the subject... Except Tarkovskij manged to keep the subject inolved and prominent in the end - ultimately an extreme success any later cinematographer could deream of.

[KrisForges]

When I see elements of time frame space as well as enter it I thank Tarkovsky.

[trakovskyfilm]

I've put 300 Limited Edition DVD's of my documentary "Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky" onto Amazon. They're all signed and numbered, and each sale will help me continue to promote my film and therefore the cinema of Tarkovsky!

[ArthBHx]

The greatest film to watch while stoned, ever. Tarkovsky once said that his films are most appreciated by children. Please, do this film justice and get high and watch it, you will not be disappointed. This film deserves it. Watch it sober too of course, but watching it without inhibitions, through a more childlike eye, is a powerful and profound experience.

[MaxSmolax]

@ArthBHx Will do, seems like an awesome idea!

[WhiteMarz]

I saw apart of this film in class. So hard to watch. Very intense!

[lalawilks]

I'm speechless.

[compattybul]

beautiful. i am finally hearing his "earthly echo" ive been reading about

[TekkenBasher]

This really is quite boring.

[bolderiks]

@TekkenBasher don't forget to warn people before they enter your channel. I was there a sec and almost fell asleep. Yaaaaaawn. you've got to learn uhm, ... actual everything before you can even think about making a hit. Sure tastes differ, but intellect is another pair of shoes. Not everybody fits them.

[Portogallo3008]

GOOD!

[npetrie76]

i posted a small music vid using a scene from this movie as a video response if anyone is interested..../plug.

[fukufujyou]

私はタルコフスキーの作品特有の陰気さが好きでした。髪をタライ­に浸けている女性は「リング」の貞子みたいです・・Thanks for uploading.

[Didgebaba]

Tarkovsky was somewhere else. Really, just in a league of his own. All his films are stunning.

[roubelladonna]

this is my favourite scene, although i didn't really appreciate the beauty of it when i first watched it. this is not a film it's art in motion picture form.

[thesafaripunk]

genius.

[Primus6662]

Wtf IS THIS? SERIOUSLY explain

[shitnrun]

@Primus6662 haha what a fucking idiot

[VitasWishList]

@Primus6662 Gladly.

Dad leaves his wife and kids, but a little boy not gonna remember that. He will remember big fire that happened around the same time.

As for wife, one moment she felt taken care of, but got blindsided by everyday routine (like hygene) and next she knows, she's alone, volnurable and creapy, with her home crumbling around her.

It's not long before an old woman is looking at her from the Mirror, rub it or not.

Phonecall is the key.

[derBene]

@Primus6662 If it confuses you that much you should give it a try and see how you feel afterwards.

[lanser87]

Beautiful

[deepenhancer]

3:40-5:42 reminds me "The Ring". Creepy.

[GilbertsV1]

@deepenhancer even more creepy, it's the same kind of ''sound'', the water, everything ! OMG !!

[deepenhancer]

@GilbertsV1 The water represents the flowing of time in a still place.

[VitasWishList]

@GilbertsV1

Mirror is 1975, Ringu is 1998, Ring 2002.

Talk about long lasting impression on intrenational film community :)

[sskrobak]

musze go koniecznie obejrzec :o

[axiomfront]

КРАСОТИЩЩАА!!!!! НИРВАНО!!! ВСЕ ЕДИННО!!!

[nitaforia]

I don't know if U decided to keep te vote in the poit 333 as it's a mirror

but i've to vote this video,

that i was looking for it for about 3 years!!!!!!

thats just a part,

but a part of Tarkovsky

is a full film of 5 directors!

[trakovskyfilm]

Tarkovsky fans in LA: four more screenings of 'Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky' left in Los Angeles!

[jikolawrence1]

Brilliant scene

[tixchicken]

tarkovsky's movies are always beautiful and leave you in a dream like state afterwards.

[DonFarshido]

You practically look at this film automatically as though it is a document of one man's life... you don't need to know it beforehand to know it's autobiographical. There is no way to look at it differently, there is no indication of fiction in the events themselves... but still you know it's not a documentary, it's poetry. But it's poetry which is unintelligible without the actual, concrete reality of an individual.

[DonFarshido]

The way this film unites itself with its maker is completely unique in modern cinema and maybe in modern art as well. Tarkovsky, the man who hardly ever smiles and seems so straightforward in his ideas, puts most well-spoken theoretic approaches towards the difference of autobiography and fiction or of history and art to shame with this piece of cinema.

[Manzeron]

It's not cinema, It's Seventh Art with a big S.

[redqibing]

大师作品，帮顶

[krring]

Apparently the main reason for Tarkovsky shuffling the chronology of this film was to conceal its politics. So how shallow or deep am I supposed to feel at seeing nothing but poetry and falling in love?

[shine609video]

Sorry to disagree but on the DVD his co-writer talks about how the complex structure came about - it's definitely a curious story! - but it was an aesthetic solution and one he described as like finding the 'golden rectangle', they recognised it when they figured it out. The poltics were a later issue for them.

[krring]

How does it smell to you?

[hsz2101]

This is pure art. None of the senses if left unattended. Thank you, Tarkovsky, forever.

[allgoraro]

creepy as hell!

[petrantonin]

How many films has Speilberg made compared to Tarkovsky?

[FreewheelinDude]

Genius

[drzoidbergsocal]

Tarkovsky and Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange) seem to be the only directors who can get away with unabashedly inserting promos for their past work in their films. Even Spielberg feels the need to be more subtle than a blatant poster of Jaws or E.T. in the middle of the scene. If there weren't such brilliant filmmaking going on at the same time, it might be seen as something trite. Kind of ironic, I think. :P

[guiwhi]

AMO, AMO, AMO, great!!!!!

[Death2Fanboys]

Many people admire Tarkovsky for his visual work and there is no dispute that he is poetic in his images. I give him major props for his sound effects. Notice how the scene from Mirror shifted from the ticking clock to the voices, and then to the fire. It's like a DANCE! My God! this is pure Aesthetics!

[floweringsilverzero]

the wind in this film always sends chills down my spine... so haunting.

[RADIOKLOW]

This is what we call movie. A visual poem of sounds, voices, faces, things and landscapes in mystery.

[noirsociety]

they don't make movies like this anymore

[jpastuch]

"They" didn't make them like this back then, either... only he did.

[Schelle1992]

SINNLOS!

[ivankaramasov]

This is my favourite movie. No contest. Tarkovsky is a director who made only seven movies, but they all were masterpieces.

[gekrepten]

This film changed my life

[RonAlmeida]

vow! what sensibility? And to think that brash Hollywood is more popular. It's good there are still people on this planet who make and enjoy viewing such masterpieces. Though this master is no more.

[Vanstiller7]

Como toda película Rusa, muestra dentro de la tristeza generalizada de las expresiones del arte ruso, esa tristeza.

Qué lindo no ver caras de mujerers bonitas sin los archiconocidos y por mí deleznados rasgos fasciales de las anglosajonas. Solo salvan las Españolas, Rusas y Francesas.

Estoy harto del cine yankee y de toda su pobre cultura.

Muy bueno Sanézana. Piotr.

[morfo1010]

De acuerdo contigo, auque pienso que Tarkovsky presento aqui a una mujer dual, la bella y hermosa mujer que es y al mismo tiempo la amnegada madre, esta es una obra muy personal de Tarkovsky donde presenta la idea de su propia madre al menos en el caso de este personage.

Y punto aprte las mujeres eslavas y balcanicas son las mas bellas y elegantes por naturaleza

[NoMoreLonging]

Great film!

[shahh1357]

I believe the famous scene in The Ring (ghost out of TV, with her head down) is taken from the hair washing in this film.

[mrshrusciov]

I thought the same thing when I saw the Ring years ago.

[freak7koRn]

I love this and Solaris, but my favourite is Stalker.

[19redstar]

One of Andrei's seven masterpieces. Mirror is drastically different from his other films: it is a non-conventional, breathtaking vertiginous experience.

[Tobbelito78]

Best film ever made. Puts even Tarkovsky's other masterpieces to shame.

[alostera]

I visited the Russian cemetery in Saint-Genevieve-des-Bois during my last trip to France. The inscription on Andrei Tarkovsky's grave stone reads: "To the man who saw the Angel".

[zDurden21]

very nice.

[MKAskina]

See Tarvoksky's Solaris from 1972

[Labortablo]

Breathtaking scene, the first time i watched it was a true cinematographic revelation.

[unfillecommemoi]

Looks amazing.

[chekmaria]

It is not a scary movie at all and it never was! It's more than just a movie... you have to have brains to understand and to enjoy it! Tarkovsky was genius!...

[mizzzturk]

i though this was supposed to be scary o.O will might as well watch it

[trakovskyfilm]

Dear Tarkovsky Fans: Please view the new trailer for my documentary about the maestro! Just search for "Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky" above!

[HUNRUSPWNZ]

and what is behind the curtain :O

[maryjivinjane]

Oh my gosh, this is BREATHTAKING.  I'm a little ashamed that I've never seen this movie-- I need to see the rest of it IMMEDIATELY. O_O

[davifromBRA]

........................!!!!!

[YKTurner1]

Aahh the Tarkovsky water drip, more than anything his soundtracks were so surreal

[tekkie56]

3:33 made me jump when I first saw this.

what the hell?

[default1976]

The best film ever period.

[asynchronousmeetings]

Absolutely loveeee this film, one of the greatest i have ever watched. Amazing

[noradosmith]

4:10 always makes me think of The Ring for a few horrible moments. I love this film

[monachos81]

Me too, and I HATE IT! It sullies my viewing experience of this film for that one brief moment. "Mirror" is a film sublime beyond my own feeble words of praise.

[semacomer]

beautifull shots. Excellent composition, colour, striking calmness

[nunhov]

!!!!!!!!!

[blueskyblue1970]

Andrei was a phenomenon in the art's history, and a poet in the cinema.

A Great mind a deep soul

[AristYdes]

The "raining" room reminded me of that part in Delicatessen when the man and the woman lock themselves up in a bathroom and they let the water flow flooding the bathroom, and I think it "rained" in the floor below.

Words are flaccid. Great truth

[andrei89]

lol my name is Andrei too

nice movie, i like it

[acaelrodri]

best movie ever made !!!

[DianaLozko]

briliant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Bluehawk2008]

lol I like the Andrei Rublev poster on the wall.

[bang3387]

I know, what was he thinking lol

[TourRoyale]

the film IS autobiographilcal. he might even be the main character.. the invisable protagonist of this film.

[asdd455]

you are fighting like dogs, and insulting tarkovsky's art work so keep quiet or fuck off

[tillerman1]

Does anyone know who put out this version & where to get it?I saw the one put out by Kino & it sucks.This already looks 10 times better.

[kogler]

It was released by Artificial Eye in Europe.

[fredpim11]

Tarkovsky est fascinant : Il a la precision de rendre les reves reels et la realite sublime. on rentre avec lui dans le silence infini de l'espace interieur. moi ce mec m'hallucine completement.comme d'autres...mais lui est aussi visuellement superbe en tout: le cadre,le rythme; le son, la lumiere . merci pour le post Kogler!

[keytoothed]

Fuckin amazing.

[JanPB]

I don't want to sound like a broken record but please: when you watch this film (or post to YouTube) make sure to switch to the MONO soundtrack. The stereo track featured in this clip has been prepared by the Russian publisher of the DVD (RusCiCo) and it features _wrong_ elements not intended by the director. "Stalker" suffers even more from this. Use the mono (original) track.

[JLDoggard]

Yes, JanPB's right. Always, always use the original audio whenever possible.

[nunhov]

I am talking about «Запечатленное время»( "Sculpting in Time" is imprecise and vulgar translation of the title), the book of his film ideas, some of them are childish, some are soft expressed even regressive, for instance the idea of special historical role of Russia. But it doesn't matter, his directors instinct/gift is stronger.

[isselman2000]

"Запечатленное время" does not mean "sculpting in time;" it means "captured time," as in preserved in a film or photograph.

[nunhov]

Yes.

[jmdez]

Tarkovsky is the first pure cinematic genius. Everything I hope to make in the medium will have his work as a reference and lesson. His book "Sculpting in Time" is my artistic manifesto.

[nunhov]

Films are definitely better than book, sometime I think, they are done "against" his ideas.

[jmdez]

"Sculpting in Time" is Tarkovsky's book he wrote about his art. It isn't a book that he turned into a film!!!!

[PegasusWhiteRose]

I love this film. For me it is still probably my favourite of his movies and, probably the greatest movie I know. A complete original. Perhaps MIRROR is the most cinematic film ever in that no other medium could do what it does in the way that it does. Thank you for posting this. One doesn't breath throughout. This film has played a special role in my life. It is new and fresh and piercing every time I see it. And it always reduces me to tears. Thank you. A special man.

[Paropa]

I'm going to see this film here in Vancouver B.C. on Friday.

Some good comments on here. It's nice when people actually say something positive and interesting on youtube!

[fabrizionewyork]

The best! very good performance.

[KingofRandoms]

Seven puppies just died the moment you made that comment. By replying I've just killed three more

[tomfaria70]

you kids stop that. This is a fabulous art piece. Everyone has the right to say/write whatever comes to their minds.

[homeostatic]

Sorry about my crass comment earlier. It is just that the sophomoric person below insulted my religion (i.e Tarkovsky).

More than any other filmmaker, he comes closest to the reality of how we experience dreams and memories—as singular moments. If I can ever make anything as beautiful in my life, I will have succeeded.

[fartjoke2000]

if I'm sophomoric, you're a rumbling fangirl. gawd i know your type - a sensitive nobody. been around those for ages. you're as fun to talk to as a grade school teacher whose religion is spelling

[default1976]

What's the matter with you, fartjoke?

[fartjoke2000]

he started!

[touchogrey]

No you are just stupid

[alaksandra]

art is a privilege.Unfortunately you are not artist and you will never better master poetry and concept of time as Tarkovsky did. He is genius.

[alaksandra]

art is a privilege.Unfortunately you are not artist and you will never better master poetry and concept of time as Tarkovsky did. He is genius. His art wil always have important referance to the future filmmakers

[ricardolopez58]

esplendido ,el mas grande director de todos los tiempos,,,

[default1976]

The movies of Tarkovsky are such fine art. He didn't underestimate viewers. He made wonderfully deep films and understood that there should also be left room for viewers' own interpretation.

[fartjoke2000]

have a theory about tarkovsky: while it's visually impressive for sure, the dialogue is made up of the cheesiest lines that if they were in english people would be laughing at the fucking screen. but that it's in this strange language totally bulletproofs the whole thing. kinda like mel gibson

[homeostatic]

I don't start fights that much...

But if you said that to me in a bar, whether it be in New York, Berlin, or Moscow, I would punch you with all my might in the temple.

Go read Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky and Nabokov...

Then grace us with your wisdom, revisited.

[elephantine]

Hahaha, he goes from spouting a bunch of buzzwords and gobbledygook to: "I'm bigger than you."

[fartjoke2000]

i know! i like to get the best of both worlds - gym and uni! he was like "you don't no tolstoy and ill kick you in the nuts!" and i was like "no, i no tolstoy, YOU dont no old norman fairclough! and ill kick YOU squa in the nuts!"

[elephantine]

"Dude, I read the whole a recherche du temps perdu, don't fuck with me."

[fartjoke2000]

haha, nice 1

[elephantine]

To be honest, I wasn't sure if you were being sarcastic or not. (Intentional) humor is almost impossible to detect in YouTube comments.

[munguiax]

ok, so you established that you know shit about cinema,  congratulations dickhead!

[fartjoke2000]

don't think i did, i rambled about critical theory and russian lit, and only cause the other dickhead brought it up...

[bluerider451]

Thats one of the funniest crits I've read on YouTube ofr a while regarding "heavy films".

Either that or I've had to much red wine.

Channel 4 in the UK used to play "stuff" like this all the time in the mid eighties. Now they play to the masses. Fuck em, let them eat cake, let me watch more weird shit like this.

[germaniwan]

for us russians tarkowsky is someone like shakespeare for english people. he speak the language of ouer dreams,

he is the universum of ouer souls

since my early childhood mirror is one of the most important artworks in my life

like the cantatas of bach or davincis paintings

[dimabbq]

i would say Pushkin is the equivalent to Shakespeare.

[krasnoshtanova]

it's not true

[DimaAnderson]

it can't really be truth or a lie, it's an opinion.

[ufucufu]

olağanüstü bir sahne.tüm zamanların en iyi yönetmeninden,tüm zamanların en iyi filmi.

[batoka8]

Thanks for posting!!!I was about 9 yearsold when I watched this movie and I still think this is a work of a genius and a deeply spiritual person!!

[jmckj]

watching this i went into deep "samadhi" or (deep meditative experience. thanks for a person who uploded this.

[PFras]

The UK film magazine Vertigo regularly features Tarkovsky. There's a nice piece on the documentaries made about him by Chris Marker and Aleksandr Sokurov in the latest issue. There are further details on the Vertigo website as well as free articles.

[ZincSolution]

The solution is zinc!

[sonyablack]

I'm so confused lolz...so there's a fire..and it really happend but he was dreaming about it..and the women...she sees herself old..but is she the women on the phone? Lolz...maybe its cause i'm not russian...and i havn't seen the movie...but what is it about?

[elgado]

What you see is what you get. There's nothing to analyse or interpret from Mirror, as the director didn't purposely use symbols or hints to convey secret themes. Mirror is a film that did an excellent, flawless job in capturing the director's life and thoughts on sound and celluloid.

The "plot" can be summed up as one that revolves around a mother-son relationship. Of course, you could say there are other "subplots", too; I'm just naming one.

[jmarling515]

The concept of dream sequences in film or film as dream is fascinating to me, and Zerkalo is probably the best example I've seen yet. Though the tone of their films couldn't be more different, I think I like the works of Tarkovksy and David Lynch for many of the same reasons. I think fans of Lynch's Mulholland Drive in particular would love this film.

[raminpix]

one of the greatest movies ever made, inovating a new style and grammer in the film history. this is the poetry of moving picture, something between dream and imagination, exposing the nature of our inner life at the same time, pure beauty, hypnotizing, indescribable....

[smudgepots]

Genius - I am so glad others recognise the greatness of Tarkovsky and the wonderful humanity of Mirror in particular. Thank you!

[unsobill]

brings back nostalgie

[madhobbit]

i just bought this film today on dvd. cant wait to watch it.

[ciaranhaggerty]

film....wow