Just by accident one of the first films I saw was a film by Tarkovsky called Nostalghia and then I saw the rest. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I couldn’t believe cinema could be like that - Carlos Reygadas (Burnaway)
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Cinema is the art of reality, the medium in which reality’s beauty is captured, where you can film marble or a face, or record someone’s voice, a sunset, the innate beauty of what you’re contemplating. Tarkovsky achieved this - Carlos Reygadas (Bomb Magazine)
With Tarkovsky, I was seeing something made from reality itself, reality was transformed into a form of beauty, conveying so much feeling. - Carlos Reygadas (Burnaway)
We can go on and on with quotes and citations of Carlos Reygadas name-dropping Andrei Tarkovsky as a major influence on his career over the last two decades, OR, you can use your eyes and check out the examples below.
It's no mystery that Carlos Reygadas has pulled from directors like Carl Theodor Dreyer, Luis Bunuel, Arturo Ripstein and more. But at the end of the day, Tarkovsky is his number one influence. Below are some of my favorite examples of the visual & thematic similarities between Andrei Tarkovsky & Carlos Reygadas.
