Le miroir

Titre original : Zerkalo

1975
G
1h 47m

ÉVALUATION IMDb

7,9/10

54 k

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A dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation.

Liretrailer2 min 06 s

1 vidéo

95 photos

Biography Drama

Un homme mourant d'une quarantaine d'années se remémore son passé. Son enfance, sa mère, la guerre, des moments et des choses intimes qui racontent l'histoire récente de toute la nation russ... Tout lireUn homme mourant d'une quarantaine d'années se remémore son passé. Son enfance, sa mère, la guerre, des moments et des choses intimes qui racontent l'histoire récente de toute la nation russe.Un homme mourant d'une quarantaine d'années se remémore son passé. Son enfance, sa mère, la guerre, des moments et des choses intimes qui racontent l'histoire récente de toute la nation russe.

Voir l’information sur la production à IMDbPro

ÉVALUATION IMDb

7,9/10

54 k

MA NOTE

POPULARITÉ

4 155

182

Voir l’information sur la production à IMDbPro

Prix
- 1 nomination au total

Anecdotes
To create the effect of the wind making waves through the crops in the field outside the cabin in the woods, Tarkovsky had two helicopters land behind the camera and switch on the rotors when he wanted the wind to start.

Gaffes
In the first scene, in which stutterer Yuri Zhary is being hypnotized, a shadow of the boom mic is prominently visible on the wall behind him. However, because this is clearly supposed to be a recreation of a TV broadcast, it appears to be a intentional error.

Citations
Father: It seems to make me return to the place, poignantly dear to my heart, where my grandfather's house used to be in which I was born 40 years ago right on the dinner table. Each time I try to enter it, something prevents me from doing that. I see this dream again and again. And when I see those walls made of logs and the dark entrance, even in my dream I become aware that I'm only dreaming it. And the overwhelming joy is clouded by anticipation of awakening. At times something happens and I stop dreaming of the house and the pine trees of my childhood around it. Then I get depressed. And I can't wait to see this dream in which I'l be a child again and feel happy again because everything will still be ahead, everything will be possible...

Connexions
Edited into Moskovskaya elegiya (1990)

Bandes originales
They Tell Us That Your Mighty Powers
from opera "The Indian Queen" Act 4
Written by Henry Purcell

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Commentaire en vedette

Visual beauty made indelible and significant

Has there ever been a more visually beautiful film than this one? That's a rhetorical question... one that only viewing it can answer.

To try to follow it as an ordinary narrative is to lose its poetic ambience...I let it wash over me like glorious music. We are so accustomed to "and then...and then" that our minds can follow as logic, that we tend to dismiss the affect that the visual image itself can have on our minds, hearts and souls. Tarkovsky is a poet...and for me this is his richest, most satisfying film of all. Included are film clips from WW 2, the Spanish Civil War, poetry by the director's father.

It does help to know that the same actress (Margarita Terekhova) plays the dying man's wife and his mother...as he allows his memory to shift over his life.

The only other director I can think of who understands the visual language of film and its significance as beautifully as Tarkovsky is Terence Malick.

Zerkalo is haunting and uplifting even as we know the "hero" is dying. Death, after all, is an intrinsic part of life.