SOLARIS by Soderbergh

"Film Threat", 18 02 2001

Could you ever see yourself making a big action movie, or branching into a genre that you haven't explored yet?

Well, "Ocean Eleven" is as close to that as I'll ever get. It's, I hope in the best way, a big piece of Hollywood entertainment with a lot of activity in it. It's a great script, and we've got a really good cast put together. But I'm also working on "Solaris", which is science fiction.

That'll be different. Is that the remake of the Russian film?

Yes. That's fantastic.

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After the premiere of this remake of the Tarkovski movie I read a number of critical reviews, which appeared in American press.  The divergence of opinions and interpretations was enormous.  The Americans in a somewhat childish manner "grade" films just like children's papers in school.  Hence there were critics who gave Soderbergh's "Solaris" an "A", the majority agreed on a "B" and some gave it a "C".

Some reviewers, like the one from the "New York Times", claim the film was a "love story" - a romance set in outer space.  I have not seen the film and I am not familiar with the script, hence I cannot say anything about the movie itself except for what the reviews reflect, albeit unclearly - like a distorted picture of one's face in ripply water.  However, to my best knowledge, the book was not dedicated to erotic problems of people in outer space...

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