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Thanks for asking about that and giving me a chance to ramble about one of my favorites.

That is from Andrei Tarkovsky's final film The Sacrifice (Offret) and if you've never seen it I highly recommend it. Actually I highly recommend anything from Tarkovsky. Funny that you mention Bergman because he did shoot that film in Sweden with Bergman's crew. He was sort of like a cross between Bergman and Kubrick. He's probably best known for his two sci-fi films Solaris (not the one with George Clooney, that was a remake) and Stalker (which I think somebody is trying to remake and also turn into a videogame for some odd reason). I find it odd that somebody would remake a Tarkovsky film, I mean can you see somebody doing a remake of Barry Lyndon or the The Seventh Seal?

The Sacrifice was released around 1986 and Tarkovsky died of lung cancer the same year. If you watch it and the film he made prior to it, Nostalghia, I promise you you'll never see more beautiful and profound filmmaking. Watch them alone and be prepared to sit stunned for some time after. Every frame is like a beautiful painting and they are deeply philosophical. Something strange happens to you when you watch a Tarkovsky film, it's sort of like it changes forever the language of how your brain interprets the world and in many ways time. Well, it did for me and like the song says Andrei Tarkovsky's dead...

Some Tarkovsky stuff...

He called his style of filmmaking "sculpting in time."

His father was a well known Russian poet.

Quotes:

"Although the assembly of the shots is responsible for the structure of the film, it does not, as is generally assumed, create its rhythm; the distinct time running through the shots makes the rhythm of the picture, and the rhythm is determined not by the length of edited pieces, but by the pressure of the time that runs through them. The pieces that 'won't edit', that can't be properly joined, are those which record a radically different kind of time"

“Juxtaposing a person with an environment that is boundless, collating him with a countless number of people passing by close to him and far away, relating a person to the whole world, that is the meaning of cinema.”

"...it seems to me that the individual today stands at a crossroad, faced with the choice of whether to pursue the new technology and the endless multiplication of material goods, or to seek out a way that will lead to spiritual responsibility, a way that ultimately might mean not only his personal salvation but also the saving of society at large; in other words, turn to God."

"My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness."

"An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn't exist, for the artist doesn't live in a vacuum. Some sort of pressure must exist. The artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn't look for harmony but would simply live in it. Art is born out of an ill-designed world."

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'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
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