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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302120424
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 630212042X
Label: Fox Lorber
Languages: GermanOriginal LanguageAnalogRussianOriginal LanguageAnalog
Manufacturer: Fox Lorber
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Fox Lorber
Running Time: 167 minutes
Studio: Fox Lorber
Theatrical Release Date: 1972
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Editorial Review:
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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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This film would probably be out of print if it was not selected for the Criterion Edition treatment. They cleaned up the old print as usual and added a whole 'nother disk of extras. You need the commentary to try and understand what is happening in this slow moving and deep analysis of humanity, aliens, the future, bureaucracy and more!
Don't look for special effects in this Russian language film constrained by money and the communist agenda. Look for great camera work and tough acting where emotions flow freely but are controlled and constrained.
This movie will keep you talking for days. Billed as the Russian 2001 at the time, as the commentaries point out, they were trying to make the exact opposite actually.
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Lil' Sara should see this film, maybe her opinions about the 'evil Russian terroristas ' of gulag, block housing, vodka drunks and all other stereotypes that the crazylouco wing of terrans residing within the USA borders hold dear to their hearts can be dismissed.
What I mean to say, the typical USian can see quite a bit of the rural and urban landscape BEFORE being jettisoned to 'outer space', and realise once again, in the gentlest of terms to those of parochial and provincial manner...welcom to the world! (and then, go, OUT of this world, haha!)
Exquisitely filmed, with the already -described ayhuasca trip feel, this film quite slow paced , so much that it may cause physical discomfort to many who adhere to the hyper-paced day to day .
Moody, well acted, and, thanks for the DVD format, can be viewed either to one sit down, or to watch in manageable segments for those with the short attention span.
I have not seen the USA version (with ... Read More
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Tarkovsky's SOLARIS got a bit of a resurgance in popularity, due no doubt to the remake of the film with George Clooney. The "Hollywood USA" Solaris, when compared to the "USSR" SOLYARIS, tells more about the contrast between the American way of seeing the world, including cinema, and the Russian Weltanschauung. With Hollywood SOLARIS, you have a very linear plot, lots of emotional development between Chris and his wife, including Gabarian, during the initial earth scenes, wierd plot twists and characters revelations at the space station, and obvious big budget sets, costumes, and effects, all given over to an emotionally unsatisfying ending. It is only with the USSR SOLYARIS, that you recieve ART CINEMA (Grand Jury Award at the Canne).
SOLYARIS gets compaired to 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY all the time. About the only thing they DO have in common, is the idea that space travel occurs in the MIND, as well as the body. The other unity between the two SCIFI masterpieces, are that space ... Read More
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The director is brilliant, and works with a brilliant cast. Thanks to the great Stanislaw Lem for writing this story.
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Dull, ponderous, pretentious, and visually unappealing to boot.
Read the book. It's shorter than many of the five-star reviews here. Effusive praise can't conceal the fact that Lem was a far better writer than Tarakovski was a director.
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