See also: Solaris

Solaris is an American film carried out by Steven Soderbergh, left in 2002.

Synopsis

Chris Kelvin (George Clooney), psychiatrist, is called the Help! by one of his/her friends left in observer in a station in orbit around the Solaris planet. This one seems to have a strange influence on the scientists of the station who do not answer the calls any more. Not having anything to lose Chris goes there to its turn. On its arrival, he discovers that his friend died, after being himself probably committed suicide. Quickly, it is victim in its turn of hallucinations: his wife, deceased several years earlier, visits him. Whereas he still wants to be his disappearance of it, perhaps there he finds the occasion of a redemption.

Data sheet

• Title: Solaris
• Realization: Steven Soderbergh
• Scenario: Steven Soderbergh according to the Romance homonym of Stanislas Lem
• Production: James Cameron, Jon Pram, Rae Sanchini, Charles V. Bender and Polar Michael
• Production companies: Twentieth Century Fox and Lightstorm Entertainment
• Budget: 47 million dollars
• Music: Cliff Martinez
• Photography: Steven Soderbergh (under the pseudonym of Peter Andrews)
• Assembly: Steven Soderbergh (under the pseudonym of Mary Ann Bernard)
• Decorations: Philip Messina
• Costumes: Milena Canonero
• Country of origin: the United States
• Format: Colors - 2,35:1 - Dolby DIGITAL - 35 mm
• Kind: Science fiction, drama
• Lasted: 99 minutes
• Comings out date: November 19th 2002 (first), November 27th 2002 (the United States), February 19th 2003 (France)

Distribution

• George Clooney (VF: Samuel Labarthe) : Kris Kelvin
• Natascha McElhone: Rheya
• Raped Davis: Gordon
• Jeremy Davies: Snow
• Ulrich Tukur: Gibarian

Comments

Second adaptation of the novel of Stanislas Lem by the American realizer Steven Soderbergh appeared in 2002.

This version of Solaris is a particular science fiction film, it acts of a slow méditatif psychodrama on a history of love. The novel presented in this film raises the question of the true love : that which imprisons the other in the desire and the memories does not recognize him its human personality… it lives only in one dream! Park with the alarm clock!

This intellectual film caught on the wrong foot the medium to the American cinema.

This version has also a great debt with the Solaris of Andrei Tarkovsky because, although it was " D-imaginée" by the realizer, Clooney and McElhone resemble much Donatas Banionis and Natalya Bondarchuk which played the original parts. In fact, more than one adaptation of the novel, this film seems to be influenced at the same time by the novel of Lem and film of Tarkovsky.

External bonds

• Official site
• Solaris on Internet Movie Database

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