Strange transmissions have been received from the 3 remaining residents on the solaris space station. When cosmonaut & psychologist kris kelvin is sent to investigate he experiences the strange phenomena that afflict the solaris crew sending him on a voyage into the darkest recesses of his own consciousness. Studio: Image Entertainment Release Date: 11/26/2002 Run time: 169 minutes Director: Andrei TarkovskyThe Russian answer to 2001, and very nearly as memorable a movie. The legendary Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky made this extremely deliberate science-fiction epic, an adaptation of a novel by Stanislaw Lem. The story follows a cosmonaut (Donatas Banionis) on an eerie trip to a planet where haunting memories can take physical form. Its bare outline makes it sound like a routine space-flight picture, an elongated Twilight Zone episode; but the further into its mysteries we travel, the less familiar anything seems. Even though Tarkovsky’s meanings and methods are sometimes mystifying, Solaris has a way of crawling inside your head, especially given the slow pace and general lack of forward momentum. By the time the final images cross the screen, Tarkovsky has gone way beyond SF conventions into a moving, unsettling vision of memory and home. Well worthy of cult status, Solaris is both challenging art-house fare and a whacked-out head trip. –Robert Horton
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March 13, 2010
#1
I saw this movie in the theatre in the late 70′s or early 80′s when I was a teenager. I went with a group of friends. Why someone picked this movie to see I have no idea. No one read the book or knew anything much about it.
No one liked it. No one had any idea what was going on. This is one of those movies that people pretend to like because they think it is a sign of intelligence to make sense of the incomprehensible. Nothing happens. I couldn’t believe it when I heard someone was wasting money on a remake. I would rather see Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein remade before this.
March 13, 2010
#2
interesting to say the least, but no, it’s not good, it’s boring. is it an intelligant film? yes, but that doesn’t mean it’s entertaining. watch a stephan hawkins tape instead, at least you’ll learn something instead of trying to be some kind of art hippy loser.
March 13, 2010
#3
To those who believe this movie is great: It is NOT.
To those who think this movie is too long: It is not; it only seems like it.
I fell asleep four times while trying to watch it (while reading subtitles). I would wakeup, rewind to the point where I fell asleep and continue trying to watch it, and try to stay awake.
I was expecting a long movie; but, I version I watched was only 2 1/2 hours long. So, I thought may I got an edited version that had critical scenes cut out. But, I now understand that I got the complete movie. Maybe, I just got a bad translation?
March 13, 2010
#4
[...] WAY too many long scenes, blah, blah, blah dialog, and only so-so special effect. [...]was expecting a interesting intellectual movie about the nature of reality.[...]. This film is too long, far too slow, and way too wordy. I admit Russian films can be long-winded but [...] Theres no soundtrack to speak of, I guess the music just gets in the way of the talking.[...] Read the book and avoid this film, if you can’t afford the time for the book, then watch the more recent release, at least it moves at a snails pace instead of a geologic pace. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
March 13, 2010
#5
The excitement of possibly discovering an unknown gem was real,and the film’s beginning meditations on water,earth and sky seemed promising.However the remainder of this movie must have written by a teenager impressed with his own wisdom.LONG and TEDIOUS are the obvious adjectives.It is unbelievable this small film is even compared to the majestic 2001.The scene where Chris places Hari in the rocket and blasts her from the space station is unintentionally funny;he would have been burned to a crisp.I guess at the time we wanted to heap praise and encouragement on the oppressed Russian film industry.