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Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris follows psychologist Kris Kelvin (Donatas Banionis) who is sent to investigate reports of strange occurrences on a space station orbiting a distant planet. When a double of Kelvin’s dead wife appears to him, he comes to understand that the mysterious ocean covering the planet’s surface is causing the memories and fears of the cosmonauts on the space station to materialise, forcing them to confront that which on earth they had suppressed. The space travel in Tarkovsky’s film is largely through the recesses of the mind, a reservoir of images and memories that, like cinema, awaken the poetic and emotional associations of objects. Solaris received the Grand Prix du Jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1972.

M | Moderate themes and violence