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Solyaris(Solaris)
Andrei Tarkovsky (Russian)
with Donatas Banionis and Natalya Bondarchuk
209 minutes
1972
Original language: Russian
Score 8.5 out of 10

You've probably seen the remake of this movie by now, directed by Soderbergh and starring George Clooney (on 2002). And if you're like me you also probably have been sucked in by the unpenetrable of the subject.

In the end this movie will make you question a lot of things, not exactly reality, but it will make you doubt of how you see reality, even if it's in the most basics of aspects: What's an human relationship? But still it doesn't get a full score because it could have used a little more pace, and some things could have been cut out. This is a mistake that Soderbergh tries to overcome, and finally achieves, unfortunatelly it loses a part of its ambition too.

i saw the original solaris about a year ago. i dislike slow paced movies unless there's some witty dialogue going on, and i dislike mood movies if the whole point of a movie is to evoke a certain emotion. nothing wrong with those types of movies, just personal preference. i liked the mystery aspect of the movie in terms of bondarchuk's reappearances and what exactly is going on down there on solaris as well as the station, but the dialogue and those long shots just bored me. and then there's the things like the rain inside the house which i guess is part of russian religious cinematography, but if i have to research russian religious cinematography to understand why its raining inside of the house, then the movie kinda loses some of its appeal to me. in conclusion, i am glad i saw it, but i would never want to watch it again. not necessarily because it's bad, but rather because it's not my type of movie.