Book: APPRECIATING CONTEMPORARY ART
Andrei Tarkovsky: Stalker (1979)
Alcoholic mysticism and narrative misdirection: an appraisal
16 min readMar 9, 2022
(There is a ‘Scene summary’ at the end of the article.)
Stalker becomes an extremely difficult film to account for and ‘explain’, if you take director Tarkovsky at his word, and avoid treating it…