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“(OK) Its hard to get inside the film, after all that earth prologue; but once there, and with the dead woman appeared, the philosophical existential density of dialogues with Snawt, in that wonderfu contrasted set design of futistic spaceship aisle and classical diner room; and he woman agonizing, the ingravity momen, just for that all is worth...” read more
"Based on a novel by Polish author Stanislaw Lem, Solaris doesn’t transcend its genre so much as seriously elevate it. The defining movie of the Soviet cosmonaut era isn’t a story of heroism, collectivism, or technological innovation, but a disorienting head-trip about memory, loss, and guilt. Sent to investigate a space station in which the two remaining inhabitants have been driven mad by mysterious forces, a psychologist (the brooding Donatas Banionis) is immediately haunted by his dead ex"
"7.10. Toinen katselukerta, edellisestä kutakuinkin 10 vuotta. Tarkovski on Elokuvantekijä, eikä iso E ole typo. En tiedä, johtuuko nyt vain siitä, että Solaris on päälimmäisenä mielessä, vai olisiko oikeastikin peräti niin, että Solaris olisi hänen parhaansa. Mennään nimittäin niin ihmisyyden ja rakkauden ytimissä tässä. Mahdottoman kaunis ja rakastettava elokuva."
"Andrei Tarkovsky’s adaptation of Stanislaw Lem’s philosophical space romance is striking by virtue of its immanence. Solaris may be set in the future, on a spacecraft far from Earth, but throughout the entirety of its 170 minutes it feels like the setting is right here, right now. Its dreamlike uncanniness is perfect for this story about a widowed cosmonaut, Kris Kelvin (Donatas Banionis), whose dead wife, Hari (Natalya Bondarchuk), materializes out of thin air. This transpires as Kelvin exp"
"Bach - Ich ruf' zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christus "
"Soljaris (1972) “I know only one thing. when i sleep, i know no fear, no, trouble no bliss. blessing on him who invented sleep. the common coin that purchases all things, the balance that levels shepherd and king, fool and wise man. there is only one bad thing about sound sleep. they say it closely resembles death.” "