solaris by tarkovsky (solyaris) - ascension

[scitsalcoryp]

Watch the Entire movie...with your littlle glass of whatever

that makes you feel at peace....

Everybodys' take is perhaps valid ...

Since this is probably the coolest movie ever made ( soundtrack asnd silence )

So many people can understand the ending....It takes a lot of serene evenings..with good wine and a rusty LSD hangover.....yep .

True...as the years age....then .

[utra1337]

i didnt get this film...

[43U7]

CAPOLAVORO ASSOLUTO!

[Quex01]

Never mention George Clooney again! It's a sacrilege.

[scitsalcoryp]

One of the strangest scenes ever..especially if you haven't seen the prior hour or so ..

Definitely one of the most haunting gripping flicks ever made

It gets better every time...Ya got to watch it least 12 times !!!!

[scitsalcoryp]

Hari... there is nothing wrong except the Planet who has a " brain " is sucking all of my mems from me and reprodocing them in an illegitimate ... sure nothing wrong at all here

[ttwiligh7]

I believe they are all synthesizer sounds.

The movie makes me weep no matter how many times I watch.

If this isn't the beauty, what else?

The Hollywood version was a joke, the creation of the director who cannot read between lines.

I remember I went to the Russian shop and asked a lady how did she think about the remake. She just said "Very funny".

[gonrolgonrol]

@ttwiligh7 Agree, the new Solaris and the old should not maybe even be compared. When I see this movie I get words like love, eternity, transcedence in my head. Really a masterpiece.

[Donizettimaniac]

I wonder who arranged Bach's piece so wonderfully. It doesn't seem to be played on an organ, it's more like some electronic keyboard and there are other vibraphone-like sounds, I can't really make them out precisely as I am not a musician. It's so incredibly atmospheric. I saw this film a long time ago when I was 19 years old, I was completely numb when it finished. This scene and its music have stayed with me ever since. There is another wonderful scene of lovers' ascention in "Sacrifice".

[mit181]

@Donizettimaniac Eduard Artemyev worked with Tarkovsky in producing the sound in Solaris. He took the Prelude, electronically enhanced and reworked it, to signify alienation (from Earth, people etc.). I've paraphrased this from 'The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky: A Visual Fugue'. Worth reading.

[rickmcn1986]

IMO solaris is tarkovskys best, only rivalled by mirror. I think it's his most complete film.

[fffatman]

One of two best sf movies ever. Post written by me. My name is Tikhyi. Ion Tikhyi.

[Bandyspelaren]

this movie is a monster. One of the best ever made

[grozaky]

so profound and kind, beaauty and so abstract that took me almost crying in pleasure

[Sw155]

you cannot remake a Tarkovsky film. It's like trying to repaint the Mona Lisa.

Trakovsky is pure art. Just watch "Stalker"(1979) an absolute masterpiece as well.

[wavelength121]

This scene brings a tear to my eye every time.

[paintingtheblue]

This is one of the most heartbreaking moments I have ever encountered in a movie.

[PoulLyda]

Does anybody know the name and artist of the winther painting being used several times as a briilliant picture of mankind and human civilization ?

[PoulLyda]

Pieter Bruegel, " The Hunters in the Snow" ( 1565 ).

[hurting]

@PoulLyda

The wikipedia page on the painting makes an interesting point that the hunters are coming back nearly empty-handed. I wonder if this has thematic significance for the film, where years of exploration have produced so little result in furthering human understanding.

[robris72]

The piece is the chorale prelude "Ich Ruf zu dir"("Orgelbuchlein").

[alexandreferraro]

This scene is one of the most beautiful love scenes I know! Thanx for posting it!

Which piece of Bach is this one?

[thefrias]

The complete name of the piece is "Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ", or "Prelude Chorale in D minor, BVW 639". In my opinion, Bach's most beautiful work EVER.

If you liked this version, perhaps you should try listening an adaptation for this piece in piano.

[vinciano]

@thefrias Bach is so titanic that BWV 639 is one of the many gem....

[cineastasolaris]

Yo estaba en Solaris, por que no existia en ese momento oooooo.

[cineastasolaris]

Tar. es un genio, el convertir una escena que desde el guion se oye simple para convertirla en poesia.

Romanticamente poetica.

[joycedusoleil]

siii, no cabe duda, y la elección de la música es... sencillamente divina..

[CleberPuntel]

Minha parte preferida, fascinante!

[marcusbondi]

No, we don't need space ships.... we need a zerkalo....

[davifromBRA]

Incrível!

[nunhov]

!!!!!!!!

[Untemperedsteel]

The original Russian movie is so much more artistic, than the Hollywood remake from a few years back. Bach's music adds majesty to any movie. Thanks for sharing.

[dans86]

there was a hollywood remake of solaris???

[Untemperedsteel]

Yes back a few years ago, starring George Clooney. Doesn't have anywhere near the majesty of the Russian movie.

[klavesin]

Clooney played the part of Donatas Banionis playing the part of Kris Kelvin:-)

[ihatekhomeini]

@Untemperedsteel American remakes of great Russian and Japanese films are always flawed. It's a country with no shame.

[gmdinformation]

@Untemperedsteel I disagree. Tarkovsky is all style with no substance. Soderbergh is all content with no style, but at least he's saying SOMETHING. Better yet, ignore both films and read the book.

[Untemperedsteel]

@gmdinformation Books and movies are different mediums of expression, and offer different ways for an artist to express their ideas. I will have a look out for the book though :-) .

[Eikinkloster]

It's a good movie though. The center piece in Soderbergh's Solaris is a Dylan Thomas poem, "And Death Shall Have No Dominion", instead of Bach's "I claim to thee Lord Jesus Christ" in Tarkovsky's.

[bushcrap2019]

Soderbergh made an excellent choice of poetry as a tribute to Tarkovsky. One has to read "Fern Hill" to see how similar Dylan Thomas and Tarkovsky in terms of expressing their ideas.

[ifilmwatchlearn]

Mi escena preferida.

[magtyum]

the solaristic wave!

[huiswerk999]

shitty vid uch

[erfonian]

Meer aandacht aan je huiswerk besteden, dan bereik je misschien een hoger beschavingsniveau.

[huiswerk999]

hmm... je bent vast een neger

[huiswerk999]

faggot

[dopiflu]

True, this scene deserves better than a badly synced version. The music and imagery are still great though.

[FlavioGirl]

does anyone have the opening credits?

[olddino2005]

@FlavioGirl Read Wiki: Solaris (1972 film)

[oldbagpuss]

Wonderful, fabulous - thank you so much for these Solaris  extracts

[faraz1729]

Tarkovsky transcends base techniques like symbolism. He was an image-maker. His images are free, not confined. They don't impose anything on the viewer. I personally find that trying to assign symbolic meaning to his images makes the viewing experience a technical and boring chore.

[therabbit27]

In his own words those images are 'metaphors', not symbols. He called the latter spiritual formulas which express certain meanings. But the images have their own existence without interpretation. I am trivializing his thoughts now, but he refused the word 'symbolism'.

[thefrias]

About the music, got my theory. Think that Bach work is totally related with the scene's context: the BWV 639 work, or 'Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ' literally means 'I claim You, Lord Jesus Christ'... if you watch this scene, when the couple is assumpting, actually they're going to meet their Maker, Solaris... and the planet, in my opinion, is God... a good way to drag Christianism during soviet years in Russia. Remember that Tarkovsky was a very Russian-Orthodox believer.

[Nekronn]

Yea....almost....agnostic....

[Blacksun1942]

This is a beautiful, beautiful scene. Great movie. Under-appreciated by western audiences, I think.

[NeoMalikov]

ah, Bach, 5th organ chorale

[Paganini1983]

immortal!

bach-ich rufe zu dir, Herr j-k und Herr andry tarkovski

[Sekein]

what are the paintings exactly? are they culturally significant or something?

[MartinSlovakian]

of course... she is hiding in memories of earth... like that paintings... I think so.

[Blacksun1942]

The paintings are depictions of humans on earth living lives that she could never have. She has memories of a life like the ones the humans have, but just as the painting is a creation (and the people inside it "fake"), a depiction, an imitation, so too is she. She's like the painting, and Solaris is the artist. That's the way I always saw it...

[thefrias]

Great theory, the poitn about the painting is totally posible, but I still got a question and about the scene: what's the meaning of the assumption?

[homeostatic]

This scene means as much to me as my own memory or dream. I could live in this film.

[MartinSlovakian]

so I do too

[Transformers217]

One of the greatest films ever made. Period. :)

[niklagofloda]

una de las escenas mas bellas jamas logradas.

[pontecorvo]

30 seconds of weightlessness. Sublime.

[Antares070]

I agree with u all!, one of my favourite cinema scenes, I love Brueghel paintings as well!..

[semionza]

Thanks for uploud!

[Yakovlievich]

Absolutely gorgeous scene. It never ceases to move me.

[PeppinoTheBrave]

Completely agree with you

[solarisy456]

Immortal scene.

One of the greatest scenes of twentieth century moviemaking. Powerful, disturbing heartbreaking.

[solarisy456]

Immortal scene.

One of the greatest scenes of twentieth century moviemaking. Powerful, disturbing and heartbreaking.