Movie Night • Mirror (USSR, 1975)

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 Tarkovsky’s most renowned and influential works.

In Russian and Spanish with English subtitles • DCP • 106 minutes • New 2K digital restoration

This event is free and open to the public. Presented by the UNC Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies. For venue and parking info, please visit www.varsityonfranklin.com