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| Year: | 2002 |
| Country of origin: | USA |
| Director: | Steven Soderbergh |
| Genre: | Isolationist sci-fi wayardness. |
| Starring: | George Clooney, Natascha McElhone |
| Rating: | 4/5 |
| IMDB link: | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0307479/ |
| Tagline: | There are some places man is not ready to go |
| Favourite line: | "If you think that there is a solution, you'll die here." |
George Clooney plays Chris Kelvin, a psychologist who has recently suffered a bereavement following the death of his wife.
A friend suggests that he should go and help the crew of a research station orbiting an ocean world known as Solaris and, upon arrival, it seems all is not as it should be. The crew are on edge, talking about a phenomenon they cannot understand, glimpsing individuals they thought long dead.
Chris is skeptical, right up to the moment his own dead wife turns up and starts talking to him.
Creepy, unnerving and with a sense of plain oddness throughout, this was pitched as a romance in space, and that's way off the mark.
Whilst there is a clear romantic angle, it drips with eeriness and dread, hardly something to cuddle up on the sofa to.
Soderbergh's direction is excellent, evocative and surreal and making use of some breath-taking special effects to enhance the storyline, not detract from it.
If sci-fi should always be ideas driven, this sets out to do what it achieves, though the slow pace may be a struggle for some.
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