A New Book on the Russian Filmmaker

Nathan Dunne is a London-based writer on art and cinema. He recently organised the forthcoming international symposium The Art of Andrei Tarkovsky at Tate Modern and is also a member of the London Consortium. The book was recently featured in the Independent as one of the Ten Best Film Books.

Synopsis: Andrei Tarkovsky is the most important Soviet filmmaker of the post-war era and one of the world’s most renowned cinematic geniuses. The beautiful and existential films he produced have been repeatedly hailed as masterpieces of world cinema. Their rich symbolism and spirituality is infused with recurrent themes of memory, dreams, childhood and Christianity. Tarkovsky is the definitive text on this great director’s singularly complex body of work.