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Stalker

There's no need to speak. You must only...concentrate and recall all your past life. When a man thinks of the past, he becomes kinder.

1979 · 2h 42m · Not Rated Drama, Science Fiction
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky

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Overview

Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep-seated desires are granted.

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Tarkovsky realizes the allegorical tale with an overwhelming density of visual detail ...

Richard Brody, New Yorker
Fresh

Not an easy film, but almost certainly a great one.

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh

Tarkovsky conjures images like you've never seen before; and as a journey to the heart of darkness, it's a good deal more persuasive than Coppola's.

Derek Adams, Time Out
Fresh

Stalker, a somber futuristic fantasy from the Soviet Union, attempts to build an apocalyptic vision out of the most impoverished materials imaginable.

Janet Maslin, New York Times

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