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Stalker [1979]
from Artificial Eye
starring Aleksandr Kaidanovsky, Alisa Frejndlikh, Anatoli Solonitsyn, Nikolai Grinko, Natasha Abramova
directed by Andrei Tarkovsky

Features:

• Black & White
• Colour
• Full Screen
• PAL

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time
  Watching Tarkovsky's Stalker was not an enjoyable experience, but it did make something about his achievement much clearer to me. In this film, and in most of his work that I have seen, Tarkovsky tells the viewer nothing: no plot, no characters, no resolution. He sets up an ambience through beautifully textured photography and lighting, stunning command of soundscapes, and a carefully undefined nexus of meaning. Then he allows the viewer to create a meaning. For some it is an overwhelming experience, for... more info

• Philistines beware
  The first shot is of a squalid, rotting interior filmed in harsh monochrome, and yet it is utterly beautiful and mysterious. Tarkovsky the cinematic poet was never more eloquent than in this film, conveying an almost unearthly beauty in the most rank and earthy materials, and a primal intensity in seemingly irrelevant interactions. The dreamlike atmosphere is always threatening to plunge into nightmare, creating a tension which is brilliantly maintained. The characters avoid communicating anything real, yet... more info

• STALKER.
  Bought this with an open mind, watched the entire film 3 times & have completely changed my opinion to not liking this film to loving it.
  This is a very subtle gritty film. Consider this a paradox on celluloid.
  Atmosphere is created in a very unique way using, silence, imagery & character interaction.
  Subtitles give this something extra & I'm glad films keep their original language.
  When viewing this film. Open you mind as well as your eyes.
  

• Peeling back the raw centre
  This is an amazing film which defies labelling. It is certainly not sci-fi, but is set in an imaginary landscape of industrial ruins, empty of people and permeated by a mysterious force of nature which is threatening even as it preserves.
  There is a storyline - see other reviews - but the film is essentially about human integrity and the failed quest by some conventional 'heroic' figures from the Soviet Union - the writer, the scientist, the engineer etc - to find meaning in a specific, material... more info

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