Solaris (1972)

This week, we drift into the ocean of Tarkovsky’s exceedingly human, empathetic (and definitely anti-2001), SOLARIS.

Or, perhaps, the ocean drifts into us. Who can say? Really, you should watch this movie. It’s a big one.

References:

• Collected Screenplays by Andrei Tarkovsky
• Time Within Time: The Diaries
• BFI Tarkovsky Retrospective
• Akira Kurosawa on Watching Solaris With Andrei Tarkovsky
• Eduard Artemyev Journey to the Center of the Cinema Interview
• Mikhail Romadin interview with Criterion on Solaris
• Vasim Yusov Interview with Nostalghia.com

Credits:

Eye of the Duck is created, hosted, and produced, by Dom Nero and Adam Volerich.

This episode was edited by Erik Gunnarsson.

This episode was researched by Parth Marathe.

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