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Title: Sentimental and unenlightening
Review: Excerpts from Chris Marker's footage of T. directing the filming of the Sacrifice is the main reason to watch this. As an "elegy" I find this unsuccessful: moody shots of various holy Tarkovsky sites in winter, uninhabited, while music swells. Almost no intentions here at all beyond display of "feeling" about Tarkovskys tragic life that comes off as pretentious. That the director be treated as a self-evident saint is what its about. A wonderful documentary to seek out instead would beAndrei Tarkovsky's: Voyage in Timeshot in Italy around the making of Nostalghia; that one I would watch over and over.
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