Mirror (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

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A subtly ravishing passage through the halls of time and memory, this sublime reflection on twentieth-century Russian history by Andrei Tarkovsky (Stalker) is as much a poem composed in images, or a hypnagogic hallucination, as it is a work of cinema. In a richly textured collage of varying film stocks and newsreel footage, the recollections of a dying poet flash before our eyes, his dreams mingling with scenes of childhood, wartime, and marriage, all imbued with the mystical power of a trance. Largely dismissed by Soviet critics on its release because of its elusive narrative structure, Mirror has since taken its place as one of the director’s most renowned and influential works, a stunning personal statement from an artist transmitting his innermost thoughts and feelings directly from psyche to screen.
TWO-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• Andrei Tarkovsky: A Cinema Prayer, a 2019 documentary about the director by his son Andrei A. Tarkovsky
• The Dream in the Mirror, a new documentary by Louise Milne and Seán Martin
• New interview with composer Eduard Artemyev
• Islands: Georgy Rerberg, a 2007 documentary about the cinematographer
• Archival interviews with Tarkovsky and screenwriter Alexander Misharin
• New English subtitle translation
• PLUS: An essay by critic Carmen Gray and, for the Blu-ray, the 1968 film proposal and literary script by Tarkovsky and Misharin that they ultimately developed into Mirror

MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.75 x 5.5 x 0.84 inches; 8.32 ounces
Director ‏ : ‎ Andrei Tarkovsky
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Blu-ray
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 46 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ July 6, 2021
Actors ‏ : ‎ Filipp Yankovsky, Ignat Daniltsev, Margarita Terekhova, Nikolai Grinko, Oleg Yankovsky
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
Producers ‏ : ‎ Andrei Tarkovsky
Studio ‏ : ‎ The Criterion Collection
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B092NQXD1L
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 2
Best Sellers Rank: #7,979 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV) #974 in Drama Blu-ray Discs
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