One Day In The Life Of Andrei Arsenevich

French director Chris Marker's affectionate portrait of his friend, the late Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky, is a deft mixture of the artist and his art: a portrait of a great filmmaker who died long before his time, and an accessible survey of films that have both beguiled and confounded audiences the world over. Marker opens the film with a moving moment from the final months of the director's life. For the first time since defecting from the Soviet Union, Tarkovsky, who, at the age of 54, was dying of cancer, is briefly reunited with his mother and son. From there, Marker and his narrator (Alexandra Stewart, who also provided the English-language voiceover for ...