Andrey Tarkovsky. A Cinema Prayer (2019)

The documentary recounts Andrei Tarkovsky’s life and work, letting the director tell the story himself, as he shares his memories, his view of art and reflections on the destiny of the artist and the meaning of human existence. In the words of critic Meredith Taylor, “Andrey Tarkovsky trashes the theory that his father, the Soviet filmmaker Andrei (1932-1986) was some kind of intellectual mystic. Instead Andrei Tarkovsky: A Cinema Prayer paints a portrait of a mildly religious and loving family man who often felt misunderstood, especially by the critics (“as usual they didn’t understand anything”).… Andrei emerges as a joyful, kind and deeply spiritual man whose ‘screen poetry’ was his creative attempt at praying”.