A Nos Amours has explored Tarkovsky’s film output in reverse: Stalker, then Mirror and now Solaris.

Solaris takes a novel about a scientific mission to solve a mystery and transmutes it into something else: just as his alien planet can materialise dreams and memories, this film becomes a creature of Tarkovky’s distinctive authorship - pace and aesthetics foregrounding environment and place rather than plot or narrative. Protagonists reflect, philosophise, seek an understanding. They come to terms with psychological facts rather than make choices. There are no monsters from any ‘beyond’ here: the truths Tarkovsky and his crew discover are folded from life and regret and consciousness itself. As the French symbolist painter Odilon Redon recommended: "place the visible at the service of the invisible”.

A Nos Amours presents a 35mm screening of Solaris by Andrei Tarkovsky (1972). We are delighted that the film will be introduced by Will Self - novelist, essayist, journalist.