Tarkovsky Week Day 5

“Every head must bow, every tongue must confess, this is the greatest of all time” -Mike Tyson (about Tarkovsky I’m assuming)

My absolute favorite movie of all time.

Stalker is meditative, spiritual, metaphysical, philosophical, mysterious, eerie, complex, atmospheric, transcendent, and unabashedly inexplicable. 

There’s so many ways to interpret this film. As I’ve said before, Tarkovsky does not believe in 1:1 allegory or symbolism. His abstract images are not meant to explicitly represent one thing, but that…

“Monsieur, Napoleon is the most disappointing movie of the year by far”

Me: There is nothing we can do…

Napoleon doesn’t know what it wants to be. Is it a sweeping historical epic about a military strategist? Is it a historical melodrama about a powerful man as he struggles with his personal and military life? Is it a dark comedy about a narcissistic, socially inept, incel who is also a megalomaniac as he inexplicably rises to power? The film can’t…