Actors: Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Note: Vague spoilers ahead
It's been quite some time since I watched a Tarkovsky film, and indeed there are not many left for me to see for the first time. The thing I forgot about Tarkovsky is that one has to be prepared to be clueless for part of the film, and indeed I was both confused and bored for the middle third of the film. What follows is one of the most captivating and audacious endings to a film I've seen in quite some time. You get your usual Tarkovsky features here - philosophical conversations, lots of mirrors, lots of shots of flowing water - and like many a Tarkovsky it will probably make less sense as the film ends, but oh how I'd like to be in some 1980s coffee shop discussing what this film means after having seen it in a theater. I really should rate this one twice - 2½ stars for the first 2 hours, and then a big 5 stars for the finish.
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