Solaris (Tarkovsky, 1972): Prince Charles Cinema, 1pm
Chicago Reader review:
Although Andrei Tarkovsky regarded this 1972 SF spectacle in 'Scope as
the weakest of his films, it holds up remarkably well as a soulful
Soviet “response” to 2001: A Space Odyssey, concentrating on the
limits of man's imagination in relation to memory and conscience. Sent
to a remote space station poised over the mysterious planet Solaris in
order to investigate the puzzling data sent back by an earlier mission, a
psychologist (Donatas Banionis) discovers that the planet materializes
human forms based on the troubled memories of the space
explorers—including the psychologist's own wife (Natalya Bondarchuk),
who'd killed herself many years before but is repeatedly resurrected
before his eyes. More an exploration of inner than of outer space,
Tarkovsky's eerie mystic parable is given substance by the filmmaker's
boldly original grasp of film language and the remarkable performances
by all the principals. In Russian with subtitles. 165 min.
Jonathan Rosenabum
Here is an extract.
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