SPACEWALKS

Solaris

Credits

Country :
USSR
Year :
1972
Director :
Andrei Tarkovsky
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
166 minutes
Actors :
Natalia Bondartchouk, Donatas Banionis, Anatoli Solonitsyne | D’après : le roman de Stanislaw Lem
Awards :
Grand Jury Prize and FIPRESCI Prize, Cannes Film Festival 1972

synopsis

A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out repressed memories and obsessions.

Solaris

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.

Slant Magazine

More 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.

Chicago Reader

A philosophical drama and a touchstone of the cinematic impetus to unravel what iti is to be alive.

1001 Films, Éd. Quintessence

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WALL·E SPACEWALKS

languages : vostFR locations : Théâtre des Capucins