Thanks for the comment, Joel.

I wrote a longer piece on Tarkovsky's Ivan's Childhood (1962) for Frame Rated - which may be of interest? You can read that here : https://medium.com/p/38a798aaadc8

...but my astute fellow contributor, Frank Collins - @frank_c_collins - covered Tarkovsky's three key films in great depth :

Solaris (1972) • https://medium.com/framerated/solaris-1972-blu-ray-698164f95563

Mirror (1975) • https://medium.com/framerated/mirror-1975-blu-ray-criterion-collection-f4603b6cdd76

Stalker (1979) • https://medium.com/framerated/stalker-1979-blu-ray-1a9623209a83