12. Romance: Solaris (1972)

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English - September 01, 2020 09:57 - 58 minutes - 80.8 MB
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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?

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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

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