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Solaris

Solyaris (Solaris)

1972

Andrei Tarkovsky

Donatas Banionis, Natalya Bondarchuk, Yuri Jarvet, Vladislav Dvorzhetsky, Anatoly Solonitsyn

7.5

15,440

Sci-Fi. Mystery Psychologist Chris Kelvin is sent to investigate the mysterious happenings on a space station orbiting the water planet Solaris.

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"There was so much to think about afterward, and so much that remained in my memory. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Richard Eder The New York Times	"The result must be viewed actively and with some effort. But if it is, the result is extraordinary enough to compensate. The film's great metaphors involve us totally in the difficult mysteries. (...) Mr. Tarkovsky has made ideas walk, breathe and move us."	POS
United States	Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune	"A visionary science-fiction film that takes us on a profound voyage into both outer and inner space."	POS
United Kingdom	Andrew Pulver The Guardian	"The clarity and beauty of 'Solaris' ensures its majesty lives on."	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"It holds up remarkably well (...) [It] is given substance by the filmmaker's boldly original grasp of film language and the remarkable performances by all the principals."	POS
United Kingdom	Jamie Russell BBC	"[It] is a haunting piece of cinema. It's also a moving meditation on humanity, love and the unknowable nature of the universe (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Dave Calhoun Time Out	"Both engrossing and alienating (...) The camerawork alone is wondrous (...) It's a smart response to the superficial excesses of the sci-fi genre."	POS
United States	The New Yorker	"Tarkovsky’s speculative visions enfold the mysteries of death and rebirth, the lost paradise of childhood, the power of art to define identity..."	POS
United States	Clayton Dillard Slant	"Andrei Tarkovsky’s pacing is less moved by narrative detail than thematic and metaphorical suggestion (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Daniel Fierman CNN	"Stunningly beautiful and borderline inscrutable"	POS

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