There are not many filmmakers who are able to hit a grand slam for their first film. But Andrei Tarkovsky did it with this film
For every filmmaker, there is the debut of that first film.
There are people and film critics that would say that the first film shows hints of what a filmmaker could be. Some are just bad and the filmmaker tries to distance themselves from it. Some are so popular that the filmmaker who loathes the popularity switches their style. And then are those who are able to hit a grand slam and create a masterpiece.
For Soviety and Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky (who would go on to directed the films "Solaris", "Andrei Rublev", "The Sacrifice", "The Mirror"), his debut film from 1962 titled "Ivan's Childhood", based on Vladimiri Bogomolov's 1957 short story, would be considered a masterpiece.
A film that achieved critically acclaim and the winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, the film would achieve praise from filmmakers such as Ingmar Bergman, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Sergei Parajanov and a few others.
But what made "Ivan's...
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Like all Tarkovsky's films this is far more than entertainment, it's art. Combine that with a perfect transfer from Criterion and you cant ask for more.
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