'the nearest to poetry that cinema can ever aspire'

my recommandation: the film "Nostalghia" (1983) by Andrei Tarkovsky.

see the comments in www.imdb.com
and
Transcendental Images of Time and Memory
in Andrei Tarkovsky’s NOSTALGHIA
by Michael Vesia

from where I quote:
A sensation, in other words, activates forgotten memories. It helps recall not only an antecedent sensation but, more importantly, the entire ambience surrounding the sensation: the feelings, thoughts, impressions, and mood of the self that experienced these things long ago.

In his book Gilles Deleuze’s Time Machine, scholar D.N. Rodowick describes the Deleuzian time-image as follows:
Since the linking of images is no longer motivated by action, space changes in nature, becoming a disconnected or emptied space. Acts of seeing and hearing replace the linking of images through motor actions; pure description replaces referential anchoring.