The quality and scope of this set makes it one of the most impressive home-video releases of all time.
An optimistic celebration of women and their ongoing liberation, the film remains moving, inspirational, and perhaps a shade too relevant.
Kino has delivered a set that admirably preserves the delicate effects of Tarkovsky’s seventh and final film.
For all of the director’s willingness to explore his characters’ unexpected depths, he’s still hamstrung by his perpetually tasteful cinema-of-quality aesthetic.
Pascal Arnold and Jean-Marc Barr’s film cannot be appreciated without some measure of guilt.
Nothing that happens in one film illuminates what happens in the others.