Product Description

A critical study of Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-86), including a scene by scene analysis of all of his films. This's one of the most detailed explorations of Tarkovsky, using contemporary theory and research.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #843521 in Books
• Published on: 2007-06-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 696 pages

Customer Reviews

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This book is full of elliptical, redundant and rhetorical cinematic references of too many other directors and films with what seems to be incidental musings and thoughts by the author without actually focusing enough on the work of tarkovsky and the man behind the masterpieces of modern cinema. The writing style is lax and amateurish (use of lazy puns and garbled street jargon such as: "c'mon maaaan." - which is actually used in what starts off as a intelligent sentence, but sadly disintegrates into fluff), making me cringe more than a dozen times for various other reasons; and as a concise read from page to page, is painfully slow. Save your money! There are many many other wonderful books about Tarkovsky ("sculpting in time" being the quintessential)and The sacred cinema of Andrei tarkovsky sadly, is not one of them