Solaris

by Mark Bould

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1844578054
• ISBN13: 9781844578054
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: British Film Institute
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 7.5"