11/7: The Sacrifice

[This is a contribution to the Film + Faith Blog-a-Thon hosted by Strange Culture.]

Andrei Tarkovsky's final feature, The Sacrifice, completed shortly before his death in 1986, is a fitting end to the career of such an idiosyncratic, deeply spiritual, and yet never dogmatic auteur. It's a strange, unsettling film, flawed but always intriguing. The film is bathed in an aura of poetic