Alejandro González Iñárritu told cinematographer Lubezki to study Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev (1966) and Kurosawa's Dersu Uzala—how these filmmakers filmed nature not as backdrop but as spiritual force. DiCaprio's face pressed against snow and rock becomes an extension of geography itself. Tarkovsky's belief that landscape has interiority runs through every frame.
Tarkovsky in 'Stalker' or 'Andrei Rublev', or Kurosawa in 'Ran', those films are in my DNA, they are part of my aesthetic point of view. For 'The Revenant', they were definitely in my mind.
— Alejandro González Iñárritu · Interview with Alejandro G. Iñárritu about THE REVENANT
Tarkovsky in 'Stalker' or 'Andrei Rublev', or Kurosawa in 'Ran', those films are in my DNA, they are part of my aesthetic point of view. For 'The Revenant', they were definitely in my mind.
Tarkovsky, in 'Stalker' or 'Andrei Rublev', or Kurosawa in 'Ran', those films are in my DNA, they are part of my aesthetic point of view. For 'The Revenant', they were definitely in my mind.
— Alejandro González Iñárritu · Interview with Alejandro G. Iñárritu about THE REVENANT
Films That Influenced The Revenant
