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>>understand what they generally talk about, but not what they really say). BTW, what was wrong with Tarkovsky's Solaris?
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>Since you appear to be a Tarkovsky fan, here's a trivia question: which famous writer and which of his stories did Tarkovsky adapt for one of his first films when he was a student? Hint: it was 4 years before I was born. :o)

Um... something by Alzheimer? :) Sounds like something I have known once and now can't remember how many times did I forget.

I respect Tarkovsky for what he did for SF - both Solaris and Stalker are anything but your typical SF (or typical Soviet SF) movies. There are no explosions, no battles, no invaders, just a few people with their troubles, or rather, the troubles of the world on their shoulders. I completely skipped the rest of his opus, simply because of the hype - he's probably just as good in the rest of what he did, but seeing [unspellable, pron. Rublyov] run for the fourth time on TV1 was just a bit too much, and as with other hyped things, I deferred the reading until much later, to see what sticks with time.

I guess now would be a good time to see the rest.