Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Solaris Mon Amour (2023) First Look


Stanislaw Lem's novel Solaris was published the same year as Hiroshima Mon Amour was released. Using the two works of art as a pivot point, directors Kuba Mikurda and Izabela Zubrycka cut together 70 Eastern European educational films from the period and overlay it with a radio adaption of Solaris in order to create a trip to another world.  

Belt in ladies and gentleman this is a wild ride.

Weaving together a bunch of things that should never go together Mikurda and Zubrycka have created a film that creates its very own world. Watch the film we quickly fall under it spell and go to a planet far away. It's so well done that unless you know it was cut together from various sources, you would never know. (No really, this plays as an off-kilter art film from the period)

I personally love collage films like this because I find that when they are done right the illusion of reality is so much stronger than a regular film. As such, this film got me where I live and took me to some where else.

Highly recommended.

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