Tarkovsky is a director I am really trying to adore. You can see so much talent in him — especially in the camera and lighting of this film. This is my 4th Tarkovsky and still my favorite has and been the first one I saw — STALKER. I have trouble really connecting with his films. I think the main reason for this is his obsession with poetics and his use of dreams instead of narrative. While usually I don’t mind it, it feels a bit too much for me. I only really liked the Bell sequences in ANDREI RUBLEV and THE MIRROR was so overhyped to me I didn’t enjoy it at all. The pacing here is so SLOW but it kinda works. We are left in singe compositions for such a long time the tableaus look like paintings. Everything with the Candle here is great and stood out as my favorite parts of the film.
