News Summary

• Andrei Tarkovsky's 1972 sci-fi head trip "Solaris" is not a film for the impatient.
• The film's protagonist, Kris Kelvin (Donatas Banionis), seems locked in a state of dread.
• The novel is about how the nature of alien life would be so beyond human comprehension, so, well, alien, that humans would never be able to communicate with it.
• By the time " solaris" finished its theatrical run in its homeland, it was 1987, at which point Hollywood had churned out no less than four "Star Trek" flicks.