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I like watching newish films about a year after they are released because my fallible memory allows that I forget either the critical lambasting or plaudits showered upon it. I have no recollection of whether or not this film did well either with critics or with audiences, and I like it that way. George Clooney plays Chris Kelvin, a psychologist whose failed marriage ends in his wife’s suicide. When Kelvin is called upon by some national space agency to recover the crew of a vessel docked near Solaris, he embarks on the mission only to find that most of the crew is dead and the two remaining members have been traumatised by something. And then he starts having visions of his dead wife, only they’re not visions and she’s not dead. I sort of liked this film, it does interesting things with human relationships and memory. The real shame is that Clooney falls flat in the lead role proving that he needs a solid supporting cast to prop him up, a task that Natascha McElhone is unfortunately not up to.