Solaris

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Hamza V Tarkovsky communicated more through visual language than dialogue. The cinematography is unbelievably good. The silence and ambiguity are almost haunting. The nerve-racking ending stays with you long after the credits roll. At times, some scenes might seem frustratingly mundane, but they have layers of meaning. It's almost as if each scene is a poem meant to be deciphered. Truly brilliant. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 11/07/25 Full Review Mikael H The very last shot earned it an extra star. I am otherwise very close to calling it “unextraordinary”. That being said, my dissatisfaction with the film is not due to any lack of substance; rather its loaded with subtext and meaning but the surface narrative is like still water. Perhaps I prefer a film to primarily give me a story through which I can lend my own experience to its weight rather than lean so heavily on me to bring my own thoughts to it to lend it its life. The balance can be struck (Stalker being a better example) but in Solaris’ case, it was pretty flat. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 06/13/25 Full Review FEllo B Where is the download link for Solaris.exe? Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 05/28/25 Full Review Esra Y If you let him, Tarkovsky's Solaris will take you to an intergalactical journey which makes you reconsider and question so much about humanity, existence and complexity of psychology. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 04/10/25 Full Review Abdirahman B I have too many questions after watching this rushian movie. These scientific and psychological concepts are completely new to me but I love it. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/09/25 Full Review Virgo V Solaris (Solyaris) is a 1972 Soviet psychological science fiction film based on Stanisław Lem's 1961 novel of the same title. The film was co-written and directed by Andrei Tarkovsky and stars Donatas Banionis and Natalya Bondarchuk. The electronic music score was performed by Eduard Artemyev and features a composition by J.S. Bach as its main theme. The plot centers on a space station orbiting the fictional planet Solaris, where a scientific mission has stalled because the skeleton crew of three scientists have fallen into emotional crises. Psychologist Kris Kelvin (Banionis) travels to the station to evaluate the situation, only to encounter the same mysterious phenomena as the others. Solaris won the Grand Prix Spécial du Jury at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Palme d'Or. It received critical acclaim and is often cited as one of the greatest science fiction films in the history of cinema. The film was Tarkovsky's attempt to bring greater emotional depth to science fiction films. He viewed most Western works in the genre, including the recently released 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), as shallow due to their focus on technological invention. Some of the ideas Tarkovsky expresses in this film are further developed in his film Stalker (1979). Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/04/25 Full Review Read all reviews

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