Episode #298

Solaris

(1972)

There aren’t many sci-fi films that can approach 2001: A Space Odyssey. Tarkovsky’s Solaris does . . . and it might even surpass it, at least for the two of us. This week, we’re talking about the famed Russian director’s expressionistic, emotional, hypnotizing dive into science fiction. His mechanism: an alien planet that seems to understand the people in our lives that we’ve lost and miss the most . . . and gives them to us. We discuss!