Sunday 7 June 2009

Solaris (1972 Andrei Tarkovsky)

His least favourite. I certainly was an avid film watcher at the age of 14. It's certainly a very interesting film. Is the planet representative of the brain, the sea the mind? It's certainly about memory. Those early shots of the scene around the lake are shot with his customary love of nature. the ending has a nice twist. And there's that great line about 'happy people don't ponder the big questions of life'.

Yadim Yuso shot his early films; Donatos Banionis and Jüri Jàrvet good as Kris kelvin and Dr. Snaut.