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February 2004 |
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X-Ray magazine, issue 12 |
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Cine-files |
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UK |
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Ethereal angel and queen of burlesque stage sleaze, Allison Goldfrapp is keen on Tarkovsky's 1967 Russian masterpiece, Solaris.
The original Solaris is typical of a certain type of cinema being made around 67/68: real psycholigical trillers. They're all about the idea of what it means to be human, the struggle of being human and what that is, love and death. All the basics, and usually quite depressing ! It's the quest for what it means to be human and about the idea of memory. It's almost too dificult. It directly influenced my song "Utopia". I'm interested in sci-fi and genetics and the idea of immortality. The sea in Solaris is this whole undulating living organism, like a brain. The hero loses his girlfriend. But she takes on another existence. He's lost in space but he's also lost in his mind. Everything is an analogy for human emotion. It's a visual thing. I'd really like to see the remake, I've heard it's not that bad. George Clooney wouldn't spring to my mind as the lead, but I suppose they've got to put a star in it or it wouldn't have gone anywhere ! There's not much action or dialogue. It's all in the lurking atmosphere. |
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