Solaris

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky

1972 / 167min / DCP

Enthralling, haunting, hypnotic, enigmatic, visually stunning, and overwhelmingly emotional, Tarkovsky’s slow sci-fi epic—based on Polish author Stanisław Lem’s 1961 novel of the same name—follows psychologist Kris Kelvin (Donatas Banionis) on a voyage to a space station that’s orbiting the planet Solaris, where he’s been sent to investigate curious hallucinations amongst members of the research team manning it, only, upon arriving, to encounter his late wife, dead ten years, waiting for him… or at least something that looks and acts exactly like her. A singular odyssey into outer and inner space, posing questions about the nature of love and humanity that linger long after its celebrated final shot.

Distributor: Janus Films

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