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In Reply to: Watched Tarkovsky's Solaris last night. posted by sjb on March 5, 2007 at 08:10:24:

I think Tarkovsky's Solaris is a love or hate thing. Either you love it, as you do and also Victor and I, or you hate it. It seems to polarise viewer responses.
There have been a few interesting threads discussing Solaris, including a debate about it's vices and virtues relative to Kubrick's 2001, here recently and you may want to do a search to check them out. There are strong, polarised opinions in all of them as I recall.
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I think I read that thread. - sjb 18:26:07 03/05/07 (0)
I'm not a big fan of 2001. For me it felt much slower and less compelling than Solaris but then I haven't tried to watch it in a while. What I remember though is not caring very much about anyone in it. I should watch it again and see how I feel.
Two films which come to mind in relation to Solaris purely for their being slow and quiet/meditative and very human in their ways are Jarmusch's Dead Man and Malick's New World (of course when has to get past Colin Farrell to enjoy it).

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We could get AuPh a trial membership - Victor Khomenko 17:15:06 03/05/07 (1)
I saw him sulking in the corner, mumbling something like "If you can't beat them... "
- :-) - sjb 18:31:16 03/05/07 (0)
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