Fresh
Young Mr. Tartovsky has side-stepped all the visual detours and pitfalls of the standard experimental vignette.
Walter Goodman, New York Times
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The Steamroller and the Violin
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Seven year old Sasha practices violin every day to satisfy the ambition of his parents. Already withdrawn as a result of his routines, Sasha quickly regains confidence when he accidentally meets and befriends worker Sergei, who works on a steamroller in their upscale Moscow neighborhood.
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Tarkovsky's graduation project at the VGIK film school in Moscow offers a key to all the later 'mature' work: it's his clearest statement of frustrated longing for a perfect union with an idealised father-figure.
Time Out
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