Andrei Tarkovsky's cinema has the unique ability to blend the familiar with the foreign, creating intermediate spaces between the real and the imaginary. At the core of the director's poetry lies the concept of the uncanny, expressed through the use of specific cinematic techniques.
Through a stylistic analysis of his films, this book highlights how Tarkovsky constructs qualities of space that open up new perspectives in cinematic realism and propose innovative ways of representing reality.
Audiences who wish to better understand Tarkovsky's films will find here another entry into his multi-layered and always open to interpretation body of work. Perhaps today, in spite of the generalized loss of meaning we experience, Tarkovsky is more relevant than ever.