much love from Indonesia. I watched it again recently after a long gap and warmed to it in a way I hadn’t before. It is surely pure slapstick when he is gamely chased around in circles (sporting a bizarre Japanese dressing gown) through the field and various puddles for what seems like ages by the ambulance drivers and the two other men – everyone waving their arms about manically in various failed attempts to catch him.

Professor of practice Elaine Monaghan curated the series for a Media School Field Experience course. First-year PhD student Zackary Dunivin has seen several Tarkovsky films. Andrei Tarkovsky’s ultimate film, The Sacrifice, released in the year of the director’s death, is perhaps one of his bleakest films. They’re the remaining fighters of a larger group, the rest of which has been killed already. Yet, after all, after the passing of the imminent danger, after the breakdown of Alexander’s wife out of sheer fear, after the ominous remark of postman Otto that only Maria (the servant) could help prevent the apocalypse, after all of this, there is one thing that remains: the circularity of life. At a crucial moment in Andrei Tarkovsky’s final film, The Sacrifice, comes news of impending nuclear war. The men bold and assertive in black jackets, the women wispy and looking like ghosts. Music is an expression of life, of connection. They know what’s coming for them, but they don’t know when. Students interviewing patrons at The Sacrifice screening (Photo courtesy of Scott O’Bryan) The soundscape of film is an important sensory dimension. Your reference to the ‘theatrical’ nature of the interior scenes is a point well made, and it is perhaps something that Tarkovsky shares with much of Bergman. Although The Sacrifice caused confusion, it also encouraged serious reflection. I can’t help thinking the highly stylised yet wonderfully gorgeous image of the bed at 1.12:45 might somehow be a nod to the famous Persona (Bergman) image of an empty bed in the hospital where Elisabet is standing watching Tv)? Indiana University Music; Art & design; TV & radio; Stage; Classical; Games; Books. This intended interaction among viewers is mirrored in the film by the characters. We treasure music. I apologise if I seem very gauche in this my first attempt to reflect on Tarkovsky – I saw Mirror once many years ago (walked away unimpressed – did not even finish it) and this was my only Tarkovsky experience until this last week when my life turned on its axis after acquiring a box set of Tarkovsky and shamelessly binge-watching most of his films – only Ivan’s Childhood and ~Andrei Rublev to go (a slightly more fulfilling experience than binge-watching Dexter the previous weeks!) Music celebrates life, connection. Indiana University (Maybe Ibsen too, Ghosts?). The Sacrifice centres on a middle-aged intellectual, a former theatre actor who gave it all up in order to become a critic. Their reports will be revealed at an April 24-26 symposium in Bloomington, part of Monaghan’s “Perceptions of Religion” project which is funded by an American Council of Learned Societies’ program designed to connect scholars of religion and journalists. Waiting, silence, heaviness – these are the three main elements that contribute to the exceptional experienced slowness. Please contact site owner for help. Alexander pleads with God and promises never to speak again. Join us, we say, and know joy. Mr. Alexander, the protagonist, spends the film grappling with the beginnings of another world war. “The war causes such thoughts — ‘What will happen to me?’” she said. He even has The Sacrifice, the director’s final film, saved on his computer desktop with plans to watch it. With eyes wide open we seek the truth. “For me, I thought the portrayal [of women] was pretty fitting of the characters.”, ”I always think it’s fun when male characters think they’re going to find salvation in having sex with a woman,” Couden said, sarcastically. The characters’ reactions define them for the rest of the film — the protagonist spirals into existential crisis, his wife breaks down and a doctor tranquilizes her and her daughter. Finally, I must just state how absolutely stunning this film is for me – there is a lifetime of thought in it and some of those extraordinary, embedded images call to you endlessly…, Your email address will not be published. Below, students of journalism, international studies and religious studies in Media School Professor of Practice Elaine Monaghan’s “Covering Ireland” reporting class write collaboratively about a showing of Andrei Tarkovsky’s The Sacrifice, a film packed with allegories, religious imagery and thoughts about death, fear, hope and materialism.

This was a very impressive essay that reminded, clarified and elucidated much of the film for me. It’s funny to say this now, but the film felt incredibly slow. New Creationism does not hide behind weasel words, parable, or myth. Movie: The Sacrifice (Offret) (1986) info with movie soundtracks, credited songs, film score albums, reviews, news, and more. You cannot not think about them. And it will be continued by many more filmmakers from around the world.