The choice of Philippe, executive assistant at Cinéma Public, as part of our ‘Boîte à surprises’ anniversary series. On September 25 only, Mirror will be preceded by Alexandre Larose’s III. Tickets for this special screening are available at a flat rate of $15.
MIRROR
Andrei Tarkovsky
1975 – Soviet Union – 106 min – Russian with English subtitles
A senses-ravishing odyssey through the halls of time and memory, Andrei Tarkovsky’s sublime reflection on 20th century Russian history is as much a film as it is a poem composed in images, as much a work of cinema as it is a hypnagogic hallucination. In a richly textured collage of varying film stocks and newsreel footage, the recollections of a dying poet flash before our eyes, dreams mingling with scenes of childhood, wartime, and marriage, all imbued with the mystic power of a trance. Largely dismissed by Soviet critics upon its release due to its elusive narrative structure, Mirror has since taken its place as one of the titan 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.
III.
Alexandre Larose
2022 – Québec (Canada) – 14 min – silent
In this third part of Larose’s scènes de ménage, the work with movement and in-camera overlays intensifies. Figures move towards and away from the camera, with a swiping hand or a turning head taking on a gentle, volatile quality. Larose articulates a story with different sequences in which domestic interiors alternate with exterior vegetation, in a film that seems to emerge from the depths of photochemical emulsion. —Elena Duque, MCFF
FST - French subtitles
EST - English subtitles
E/FST - Bilingual subtitles
