Anatoli Solonitsin, Donatas Banionis, Jüri Järvet
The cosmonauts on a space station have strange hallucinations, which seem to originate from the planet they are orbiting.
DVD Release Date: November 26, 2002
Stats: 1,203 reviews
Andrei Tarkovsky's "Solaris" is one of the great science fiction films in history. The film is essentially a meditation on memory, a sort of hypnotic psychodrama that, as easy as it is to describe, is next to impossible to explain. Comparisons to "2001: A Space Odyssey" are obvio...( read more)
A good film but the plot never gains momentum, it just creeps along. If you have attention deficit disorder you're going to have a hard time making it through the entire movie.
In order to avoid seeming like a poser, I decided to watch this film simply to justify calling the remake one of my favorite movies. Now when I tell people that I liked the remake more, I can sound like an artless idiot instead of a poser! When dealing with film elitists, no one ...( read more)
Dr. Sartorius: Man was created by Nature in order to explore it. As he approaches Truth he is fated to Knowledge. All the rest is bullshit.
As good as much of this film is, it is another example of how I was spoiled by the more recent version of this story, which made me not en...( read more)
2001 meets Wuthering Heights. A scientist goes up to a space station to check the progress of the Solaris project. Most of the crew are dead, and the ones left are seeing hallucinations of dead loved ones. When the scientist's wife appears, he starts to unravel. Or does he? A li...( read more)
A wonderful meditative film that raises many philosophical and metaphysical questions about human existence, loss and happiness.
pretentious. Solyaris,for me, is an ultimate endurance test. with a running time of almost 3 hours and a pace slower than an injured snail.It took me 5 days to finish this movie,wherein the rate is i overslept every 20 minutes of the film. Tarkovsky seems wants to make this his o...( read more)
Inaccessible bollocks. Much preferred Soderbergh's version. Suffers from The Deer Hunter syndrome and then when it gets on the space station it's just as boring. Somewhere in the 2nd hour I stopped reading the subtitles because they weren't helping. In face, the dense philoso...( read more)
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