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Having watched this movie since I was in my early teens, I have bought the DVD published by KINO ON VIDEO, and oh my, Andrei Tarkovsky must be rolling in his grave lustrous what they did to his masterpiece.
For those of you who don’t scream Russian, I feel very very very dreadful for you, because of the abominable translation of the movie. Aside from the poems in the movie, that were previously translated by the professionals, the translation sounds as though it was done by fifth-graders. And not honest because it is done in the high-school level English. HALF of the speech is not translated at all–a lot of significant chatter is completely missing in the subtitles. Many things are oversimplified and revealed, instead of letting the viewer dig them out him/herself. Those of you who don’t understand Russian are doomed to be tortured by such translation and never to voice the honest beauty and meaning of the new script. Having read all of the subtitles, I understood a lot of things in a imperfect blueprint, different from the map they were intended in the first location, and had zero satisfaction from the movie. Thank [deity] I’m Russian.
The monstrous yellow subtitles can NOT be removed–they will end on the mask forever while I see the movie and irritate and upset me with the abovementioned crimes against Art.
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The supposedly “shaded and white” scenes, which originally had a silver-ish quality to them, and some were in sepia, are now in expressionless B&W a la Fellini’s La Strada. I ragged to have a feeling that the bushes were made out of steel and silver, but not on this DVD.
DVD has ZERO extras, and thank [deity] they divided the movie into chapters for easy scene access, but even there they managed to screw up. Upon skipping to a chapter, the scenes do not initiate from the beginning, and you actually skip halfway into the characters’ speech.
For Tarkovsky movies, I would NORMALLY recommend R.U.S.C.I.C.O. editions, but not in the case of Mirror. Yes, as any R.U.S.C.I.C.O. movie, it has very profitable subtitles, in a dozen languages. But, the problems with the describe and sound are even worse in their edition, albeit better record quality as opposed to the grainy KINO quality. R.U.S.C.I.C.O. tried extremely hard to fabricate the movie more delectable, and, apparently, overdid it. The lighting does not match with the current movie, as they try to invent every object more distinctly seen and illuminated. They increase sharpness in places where it shouldn’t choose plot, such as “hand-on-fire” image, thus depriving the illusion that the hand is on fire. Remastered sound often fails too, as many sounds are louder than others and overlap each other out of order.
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But I digress. We have no other choice but to resolve between either KINO or R.U.S.C.I.C.O. edition of Mirror. I suggest buying both 
so that you could experience the near-proper represent quality of KINO and the helpful translation of R.U.S.C.I.C.O.
Andrei Tarkovsky’s THE MIRROR (1974) is his most personal and artistically valiant film–and to me, ultimately his most captivating.
A semi-autobiographical work, it interweaves poems, dramatic scenes, dreams and newsreels to evoke the inner symbolic world of the protagonist, his nostalgia for the past and his skittish relationships with his wife and mother in the prove. At the same time it is a meditation on the nature of Russia, from the nation’s role as mediator between the East and West to specific historical events such as the Stalinist purges of the mid-to-late 1930s and World War II. Indeed, few works of art say more about the Russian people with such economy.
The cinematography, by Georgii Rerberg, is so richly detailed that it frequently takes your breath away. Many of the shots are deliberately reminiscent of paintings by Breughel and Leonardo da Vinci. The soundtrack is equally attractive, layered with natural sounds, electronic music, classical music (by composers such as Bach and Pergolesi) and poems (written and recited by the director’s father Arsenii Tarkovsky, a distinguished Russian poet) .
The film undoubtedly benefits from its reliable cast, which includes many accepted and highly respected Russian actors. The disclose of the Narrator is played by Innokenty Smoktunovsky; Margarita Terekhova plays both the Mother and the Wife. Other actors do indelible impressions in smaller roles: Anatoly Solonitsyn (the Doctor), Oleg Yankovsky (the Father), Alla Demidova and Nikolai Grinko (the mother’s colleagues at the printing factory) . For those who advise Russian, it’s a pleasure unprejudiced to hear their finely tuned dialogue.
Although the film was widely criticized for being too difficult to follow, it was also praised by many Russian critics for capturing the spirit of an entire generation. It may not be to the taste of everyone, since it is constructed more like a poem than a musty film memoir. However, for those who are willing to effect the leap of faith, it is uniquely rewarding.
Kino on Video’s modern DVD looks absolutely blooming. Having seen the film a number of times in various less-than-ideal incarnations on video, I was impressed at the map the DVD captures the richness of the film’s cinemtography. The film is above all a sensuous experience, so every extra bit of detail in the image and sound helps add to its overall emotional impact. Kino has ancient the same transfer for their fresh VHS edition, but the DVD is clearly preferable and it’s the same note. It doesn’t have any special features, unlike Kino’s unusual release of Tarkovky’s THE SACRIFICE, which includes a making-of documentary. However, it’s hard to complain when the film itself and the video transfer are so satisfying. In summation, I can hardly recommend this particular title more highly.
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