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starring: George Clooney, Natascha McElhone, Viola Davis, Jeremy Davies, Ulrich Tukurdirected by: Steven Soderbergh
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 0024543106753
Format: Color, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: January 27, 2004
Running Time: 99 minutes
Sales Rank: 17459
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: November 27, 2002
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Description:
Superstar George Clooney turns in a stellar performance in this 'brilliant sci-fi movie' (New York Daily News) from Academy Award winners Steven Soderbergh (2000 - Best Director, Traffic) and JamesCameron (1997 - Best Picture, Titanic). Aboard a lonely space station orbiting a mysterious planet, terrified crew members are experiencing a host of strange phenomena, including eerie visitors who seem all too human. And when psychologist Chris Kelvin (Clooney) arrives to investigate, he confronts a power beyond imagining that could hold the key to mankind's deepest dreams?or darkest nightmares. Co-starring Natascha McElhone and Jeremy Davies, Solaris is 'mind-bending!' (Rolling Stone)
Amazon.com:
A curious mix of science fiction and metaphysical love story, Solaris centers around Chris Kelvin (George Clooney), a psychologist sent to investigate why a space station orbiting an alien planet has stopped communications. The planet has the power to delve into human psyches and re-create lost loved ones--in Kelvin's case, his dead wife (Natascha McElhone), whom he then wants to bring back to Earth. Director Steven Soderbergh (Traffic, Erin Brockovich) fills almost every shot with faces and bodies, as if to emphasize the human soul rather than outer space as the movie's true subject. Unfortunately, the vagueness of the environment--combined with a script that implies more than it shows--serves to dislocate our ability to engage with the characters, rendering Solaris emotionally inert. Jeremy Davies, as a lingering crew member, brings a hint of humor to the otherwise serious-minded proceedings. --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Cris, go find out what went wrong.....
I must apologise to all and sundry who just happened to like this film. The Andrei Tarkovsky 1972 original was a good film (albeit waaaaay too long), so it begs the question: Why a remake? Not to bash George Clooney, but this film was entirely mis-cast. The performances were dry and hollow, and all the actors in this film are capable of much better.
Tarkovsky's film has more than just a passing resemblance to "2001, A Space Odyssey", and I believe it to be the Soviet equivalent. The ... Read More
Rating:  - the only movie I ever wanted to walk out on
I just didn't get it. Maybe I fell asleep during it and missed something because I didn't get one second of it. snooooooooozer!!
Rating: - Quite dull
I couldn't get through this. It's an interesting sci-fi concept movie, but the tale is just not told fast enough, I guess. I got sick of flashbacks to George Clooney's idyllic married life with the clone who haunts him on a spaceship off the planet Solaris. The soundtrack is nicely atmospheric and the photography is great. Just doesn't cut it as a night's viewing pleasure.
Rating:  - Great modern adaptation of Solaris
I find this modern adaptation of Solaris better that the Tarkovsky version from 1971.
The Tarkovsky movie is great but its age really shows - can you take seriously astronauts in leather jackets, looking like early-stage alcoholics, and smoking cigarettes on a space station (so theatrical and 70s intellectual hip, though ;).
This new adaptation is engaging, hypnotic, moody, and intimate. The soundtrack greatly contributes to the mood too.
Rating: - Like the Flowing Colors of a Salvadore Dali Painting.
Steven Soderbergh's stylish psychological thriller, released November 2002 in the United States by 20th Century Fox , eloquently captures the theme of Stanislaw Lem's 1961 book. Written almost fifty years ago, "Solaris" is an intelligent, introspective drama of great depth and imagination that meditates on man's place in the universe and the mystery of God.
Soderbergh's "Solaris" is a poem to Lem's prose. Both explore the universe around us and the universe within. Not particularly palatable ... Read More
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