Andrei Tarkovsky’s unconventional account of the life of a 15th-century Russian painter is likely to live on as long as its subject’s icons. Tarkovsky muse Anatoly Solonitsyn never paints a stroke as Andrei. The film instead shadows his episodic struggles with making art in light of the cruelty and venality of the muddy world. An utterly profound cinema experience. -Lee Gardner
1966 Andrei Tarkovsky Sovscope B&W DCP 183 min. In Russian with subtitles
