This is the russian version, directed by Tarkovsky. I don't know if it is just me or if the plot is actually a little ambiguous and left to interpretation. More than the plot, I like the way the movie deals with some of the most basic, but unanswerable questions about life, death, humanity etc. It is very slow, absorbing and beautiful. It also poses a lot of provocative philosophical questions through the dialogue. Tarkovsky seems to switch between B/W and color arbitrarily(or so it appears) in different scenes. It doesn't seem to accomplish anything other than making us aware of the underlying technology in film-making, which might be bad. In any case, I like this version better than the english one with George clooney.
Solyaris is an astonsihing film. The final moments are breathtaking.
