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Solaris

Screening on Film
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky.
With Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Jüri Järvet.
USSR, 1972, 35mm, color and b&w, 169 min.
Russian with English subtitles.

One of the most profound and influential science fiction films ever made, Tarkovsky's masterpiece strains the boundaries of the genre at every turn. Tarkovsky doesn't search for futuristic vistas – the film's lone city scene was shot in contemporary Tokyo – concentrating instead on the barren soulscapes of his characters, with the film’s mirror-hall ambivalences enhanced by Eduard Artemiev's astonishing score, played on primitive synthesizers.

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