
It is time for a new direction.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
[Last words, as reported by his wife.]
New restoration of Stalker; by Janus Films
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Nostalghia; dir. by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1983
Nostalghia is a film about waiting, about the long journey before the arrival.
— Ian Maxton
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Our lives are all wrong. A person has no need of society, it is society that needs him. Society is a defence mechanism, a form of self-protection. Unlike a gregarious animal, a person must live in isolation, close to nature, to animals and plants, and be in contact with them. I can see more and more clearly that it is essential to change our way of life, to revise it. We have to start living differently. But how? First of all we have to feel free and independent, to believe and love; we have to reject this insignificant world and live for something else.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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