19 July 2010 - 25 July 2010

Solaris - Tarkovsky’s visually striking meditation on grief, guilt and solitude.

BFI Southbank
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Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Cast: Donatas Banionis, Natalya Bondarchuk, Yuri Jarvet
Country: USSR
Year: 1972
Running time: 165min
Certificate: PG

Often referred to as a response to Kubrick's 2001, Tarkovsky's psychodrama is a visually striking meditation on grief, guilt and solitude. Adapted from Stanislaw Lem's novel, it's a poetic story of a scientist travelling into deep space, to a base circling a mysteriously powerful planet. Finding the station in chaos and apparently inhabited by his own deceased wife, he realises that his prime area of investigation will be his own psyche. 

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