By Cameron McGill in New Film on Thursday 7 July 2011

A work that softly bears the mind-blowing revelation that criticism can itself be art: as lyrical and spiritual as that which it seeks to understand. A poetic investigation by one of my favorite filmmakers (Chris Marker) of my absolute favorite filmmaker (Andrei Tarkovsky), the documentary glides through Tarkovsky’s own blissful and contemplative mis-en-scene, intermittently surfacing in beautifully muddy VHS footage of Andrei working from his deathbed to finish The Sacrifice. 

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