Inaugural film screening of the Geneva Art Film Club: Andrei Tarkovsky's Mirror.

The only director to have three films in the top 30 of the British Film Institute's critics' AND directors' top 100 films of all time, Tarkovsky seems a good place to start.

Using a nonlinear structure interlaced with dreams and flashbacks, for his fourth feature-length film, Tarkovsky creates a stream-of-consciousness meditation on war, memory and time that draws heavily on events from his own life. Tarkovsky's film alter ego is Alexei (Ignat Daniltsev), a dying man in his 40s whose commonplace interactions with his wife (Margarita Terekhova) and children summon up a host of memories, ranging from his parents' divorce to his time on the battlefields of World War II.

From a director who took film art to a new level, what better title for a (semi-) autobiographical film?

Try and make it to the MLC Librairie Café for 6.45 to get a drink and have a chat, then we'll have a brief introduction to the director and film, and hopefully start the film shortly after 7, with time afterwards to discuss.