Despite being one of Andrei Tarkovsky's most successful films,
Solaris (1972) was the one he most disliked. This dismissal of his
most generically marked film has often been accepted by those quick
to embrace the image of Tarkovsky as a transcendent artist rising
above the politics of the Soviet film industry and the trappings of
genre to produce personal works of art. Going against such
currents, Mark Bould instead treats Solaris as the product of a
genre as well as the work of a skilled film-maker. He teases out
Tarkovsky's fascination with Stanislaw Lem, on whose novel the film
was based, and also considers Steven Soderbergh's 2002 adaptation.
Lively and revealing, Bould's examination situates Solaris within
the Russian and global cultures of the fantastic, to which
Tarkovsky contributed three major science fiction films. This
special edition features original cover artwork by Matthew Shlian.
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