I am not a Tarkovsky scholar, I only know that USUALLY during non-narrative (or highly opaque) films, I start to get restless. But Tarkovsky manages to mesmerize me.
As a sci-fi buff, naturally, I am more likely to want to rewatch Solaris or Stalker, but this meditation on memory – with a virtually impossible to follow plot – somehow manages to hold the interest.
It’s the camera moves, the dripping water, the changing film stocks, the close-ups, the slo-mo, the sense of loss.
Can’t wait to read up on this movie and find out what all that symbolism was actually about.
Solaris sucked!!!