As if to display his versatility, Tarkovsky skipped genres, moving from the distant past to the distant future for his third feature,Solaris, a rather ponderous sci-fi movie taken from a novel by the Polish writer Stanislaw Lem. The harsh, Kubrick-like spaceship interiors suit the director far...
Mirroris also one of Tarkovsky’s most slyly allusive films. There’s a French poster forAndrei Rublevglimpsed on Alexei’s apartment wall. Snowy fields dotted by frolicking schoolchildren recall the composition of Brueghel’s paintingThe Hunters in the Snow, which also figured prominently inSola...