Looking into the Reflections of Andrei Tarkovsky’s ‘Mirror’
The filmmaker’s retreat from the conventions of Socialist realism—patriotism, militarism, subservience—becomes a journey to locate the self outside the strictures of state ideology.
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Nathan Dunne is the author of Lichtenstein and the editor of the essay collection Tarkovsky. He has written for The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Slate, Los Angeles Review of Books, Literary Hub and Artforum.
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