Solaris - Criterion Collection

Solaris - Criterion Collection
by Andrei Tarkovsky

Solaris - Criterion Collection
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Actor: Donatas Banionis, J?ri J?rvet, Natalya Bondarchuk, Nikolai Grinko, Vladislav Dvorzhetsky
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Brand: Image Entertainment
Cinematographer: Vadim Yusov
Writer: Andrei Tarkovsky
Editor: Lyudmila Feiginova
Editor: Nina Marcus
Producer: Viacheslav Tarasov
Writer: Fridrikh Gorenshtein
Writer: Stanislaw Lem
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Russian (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 165 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-11-26
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Criterion

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Movie Review: Disappointing, Lacks Characters I Care About
Summary: 2 Stars

This could've been such an emotional powerhouse of a movie. But it sure isn't.

I found SOLARIS very interesting in certain ways, but the staggeringly glacial pace made me very restless. I can usually sit through 165 minute films without difficulty, but this was an Herculean challenge.

Also, I found the movie to be exceptionally bleak. Depressing, really. Sometimes there's bleak science fiction (like the film noirish BLADE RUNNER), but this was soul-smotheringly bleak.

There was so much potential and possibility in this movie, but it left me so unsatisfied when the end credits rolled.

It is very highly regarded by many people, and by critics. At the Cannes Film Festival it won the Grand Prix Sp?cial du Jury and was nominated for the Palme d'Or. But I suspect there is a club that I just joined consisting of people who are left nonplussed by SOLARIS.

I don't need my films and my sci-fi to be non-stop entertainment or action. I actually see that SOLARIS is a thought-provoking science fiction film (how often do *those* come around? Not often!). And I do enjoy films that are unique or unpredictable, or that invite interpretation and that inspire thought. But finishing this film, I felt like there was so much they could have explored but they didn't. And they had so much time to do it!

SOLARIS, for me, tries to be deep, romantic, meaningful, even ominous at times... but doesn't cut the mustard. I didn't care about Kris and Hari much at all, which was a key element for this film to succeed for me.

The most disappointing thing for me was that this movie could have been a *major* emotional experience (as it deals often with memory and love)... it had potential to be a truly powerful tear-jerker... But it failed because I didn't care enough about the characters and situations.

I doubt that I will be revisiting SOLARIS again soon... even with that amazing, screwed up, and sad ending.
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Summary of Solaris - Criterion Collection

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 Tarkovsky
The 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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