Mirror

Part of our Sculpting in Time: Andrei Tarkovsky season, celebrating the work of Tarkovsky with all seven of his feature films on the big screen. 

See any 3 films in this season for £24 when you book them together  – simply add the tickets to your basket and the offer will be applied at check-out.

Mirror is the celebrated Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky’s most autobiographical work in which he reflects upon his own childhood and the destiny of the Russian people.

The film’s many layers intertwine real life and family relationships – Tarkovsky’s father, the poet Arseny Tarkovsky, reads his own poems on the soundtrack and Tarkovsky’s mother appears as herself – with memories of childhood, dreams and nightmares. From the opening sequence of a boy being cured of a stammer by hypnotism, to a scene in a printing works which encapsulates the Stalinist era, Mirror has an extraordinary resonance and repays countless viewings.

The British novelist and journalist Will Self has described Mirror as the most beautiful film ever made.