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"A cultural event." - J. Hoberman, The Village Voice
Based on the novel Roadside Picnic by the Strugatsky brothers, STALKER recounts the odyssey of three men - the Writer, the Professor, and the Stalker - who travel from a post-apocalyptic landscape into the Zone, which the government has declared off limits after a mysterious extraterrestrial event has rendered it uninhabitable. At its centre is The Room, which reveals and perhaps materializes one's deepest desires. Guided by the severe, shaven Stalker, who lives by a polluted lake with his wife and mutant daughter, the men navigate across a treacherous landscape of shifting, invisible “traps,” industrial debris, and subterranean passages to the threshold of the mysterious, wish-fulfilling Room. Tarkovsky rarely achieved such an intense rendering of spiritual quest; the Christ imagery and intimations of Dante, the voluptuous sense of ruin, decay, and imminent catastrophe, the painterly references to Bosch, Rembrandt, and Flemish art, and the temps mortss of dripping water, billowing fog, and slow wind all combine to make the film one of his most beautiful and mesmerizing. “As necessary to the cinema as Mozart to music” (Gavin Millar, The Listener ). - James Quandt PG
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