"Suffering makes life seem dismal and suspicious. But I wont accept that, no I wont accept that."
The cinematography and imagery in this film is simply breathtaking from moment one. The use of color in the film is so smart with earth looking so green and the use of yellow and amber and white on the space station. I also don’t know how he captured those shots of Solaris. They look like a time lapse of clouds or the ocean under a microscope. The production design was a little weird at times (why is there a chandelier in a space station?), but also their are certain parts of the space station that so nice to look at. Like all of Tarkovsky’s film he is saying a lot here about memory, the past, the future, love, life, and the human condition and he is doing it an a very atmospherical and allegorical way. This isn’t as poetic as other films, which made it much more accessible to me. The plot was also very interesting, even though it takes a long time to get going. Natalya Bondarchuk was outstanding as Hari. The scene where she is revived from being frozen is some of the best acting I’ve seen. She also just has a captivating presence about her.
