Solyaris (Solaris) (1976)
Average Rating: 8.4/10
Reviews Counted: 45
Fresh: 43 | Rotten: 2
Solaris is a haunting, meditative film that uses sci-fi to raise complex questions about humanity and existence.
Average Rating: 8.2/10
Critic Reviews: 10
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 1
Solaris is a haunting, meditative film that uses sci-fi to raise complex questions about humanity and existence.
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Based on a novel by Stanislaw Lem, Solaris centers on widowed psychologist Kris Kelvin (Donata Banionis), who is sent to a space station orbiting a water-dominated planet called Solaris to investigate the mysterious death of a doctor, as well as the mental problems plaguing the dwindling number of cosmonauts on the station. Finding the remaining crew to be behaving oddly and aloof, Kelvin is more than surprised when he meets his seven-years-dead wife Khari (Natalya Bondarchuk) on the station. It
Oct 6, 1976 Wide
Nov 26, 2002
Kino International
Cast
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Natalya Bondarchuk
Khari -
Jüri Järvet
Snauth -
Donatas Banionis
Kris Kelvin -
Anatoli Solonitsin
Sartorius -
Vladislav Dvorzhetsky
Burton -
Nikolai Grinko
Father -
Sos Sarkisyan
Gibarian -
Tamara Ogorodnikova
Aunt Anna
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All Critics (45) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (43) | Rotten (2) | DVD (17)
The effects are scanty, the drama gloomy, the philosophy of the film thick as a cloud of ozone. The plot is not all that original either.
Andrei Tarkovsky spins a strange, slow but absorbing parable on life and love in the guise of a sci-fi theme.
Top CriticMore an exploration of inner than of outer space, Tarkovsky's eerie mystic parable is given substance by the filmmaker's boldly original grasp of film language and the remarkable performances by all the principals.
It's a smart response to the superficial excesses of the sci-fi genre.
This complex and sometimes very beautiful film is about humanity but hardly at all about politics.
There was so much to think about afterward, and so much that remained in my memory.
In Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris, we have made contact with the aliens, and they want you to call your mom.
Proves the yin to Kubrick's yang, not out of contrarian longing, but because that was the form best suited for the content Tarkovsky wanted to explore.
Its discussion of passion and obsession, regret and reconciliation is consistently challenging and offers few easy answers.
Haunting, provocative, beautifully shot and infused with an irresistable, tender sadness, this is sci-fi, and indeed cinema, at its most powerful and mysterious.
...addictive, serenely maddening
Make sure to see the long version (167 minutes) of Tarkovsky's provocative sci-fi, one of the best of its genre
A brilliantly imaginative work of art.
Slow, but ravishingly beautiful and charged with a real poignancy.
Once you accustom yourself to its pace -- it takes probably the first hour -- it's a hypnotic experience.
It's unique: a sci-fi feature wherein most of the exploration is done within the human soul, a kind of obverse of what we usually expect from the genre.
The larger theme of Solaris is communication itself, particularly the failure of communication between people.
Meditative cinema.
Draggy, but compelling, if you've read the book.
A million light years removed from the pseudo-religious grandstanding of Kubrick's acid-trip space odyssey, this takes Kelvin -- and us -- on a journey into the uncharted depths of inner space.
...[Tarkovsky's] camera lingers oppressively on things that mean absolutely nothing.
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Foreign Titles
- Solaris (DE)
- Solaris (Solyaris) (UK)
