A Spaced-Out July
- Solaris
- Solyaris
- USSR1972
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- 167 DCP
- PG
Screening Dates
- July 27, 2019 8:15
- July 28, 2019 7:00
“Solaris ranks with the best of Tarkovsky’s work, which is to say it ranks with the best movies produced at any time.”
Jay Scott, Globe and Mail
Adapted from Polish author Stanisław Lem’s 1961 novel, Russian master Andrei Tarkovsky’s metaphysical epic is often described as the “Soviet 2001”—although “Star Trek as written by Dostoevsky” (Jay Scott, Globe and Mail) also fits! A guilt-ridden psychologist (Donatas Banionis) is sent to investigate strange occurrences on a space station orbiting Solaris, a mysterious planet with a sentient Ocean. Confronted by the incarnation of his long-dead wife (Natalya Bondarchuk), he is forced to relive the greatest moral failures of his past. A brilliant exploration of love, truth, and what it means to be human, Solaris is magnificently mounted in widescreen and colour. Steven Soderbergh directed a surprisingly worthy American remake, starring George Clooney, in 2002.