Mirror unfolds around a dying poet’s memories of his life, combining incidents, dreams, memories, and newsreel footage. Alternating between colour, black-and-white, and sepia, it also switches between three different timeframes: prewar (1935), wartime (1940s), and postwar (1960s or ’70s). Since its release it has been reappraised as one of the greatest of all films.
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975