12. Romance: Solaris (1972)

Support the show! The last entry in our romance theme, Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 sci fi flick, Solaris, offers an unconventional love story in a setting that is at once very futuristic and very 1970s.  What does it mean when a psychologist deployed to a space station blasts his wife’s reincarnation into space?  More seriously, what lessons can we draw from slow films like Solaris in contrast to so many modern movies with their lightning-fast pacing? Sources IMDB Malcolm, Christopher: “Learning from the Masters: Filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky” https://fstoppers.com/historical/learning-masters-filmmaker-andrei-tarkovsky-192011 Miller, Greg: “Data from a Century of Cinema Reveals How Movies Have Evolved” https://www.wired.com/2014/09/cinema-is-evolving/ Totaro, Donato: “Tima and the Film Aesthetics of Andrei Tarkovsky” in Revue Canadienne D’Études Cinématographiques / Canadian Journal of Film Studies Wikipedia