In Reply to: For me, Tarkovsky is like that wine that doesn't overwhelm posted by tinear on January 23, 2006 at 06:47:17:
...had been in being his younger contemporary. So I was usually not mature enough to appreciate his early films as they came out.I was 12 when Ivanovo Detstvo came out... and at that age who cares about fine movies? All I remembered was some war...
Same was true (albeit to a lesser degree) of Andrey Rublev. Solaris was different, as it fell on a soil ready for it, and the Mirror in 1975 was perfect - the juices were brewing at that time full bore! The discussions about that one were everywhere, in our department a day would hardly pass without some heated debates between the intellectual cognoscente's and the more grounded people, who all wanted clear explanation of who was who in each shot. The cognoscente's mostly smiled, of course...
I had to revisit most of his work later, to fully appreciate the depth of them. I have not seen Ivan in many years, though, so I should definitely take another look at that one.
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- My problem with Tarkovsky... - Victor Khomenko 08:23:37 01/23/06 (0)