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Sick of economic doom and gloom, budgetary demoralisation and constant number-crunching to make ends meet? Unpack your space suit and launch yourself into a sci-fi classic that has more to say about real life than most of the strange alien creatures occupying that zero-gravity zone known as the Legislative Council.

The event: Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney have been hogging entertainment headlines recently for their souped-up remake of a film which has impressed the critics but failed to put bums on seats on its release in the United States. Before we get the chance to decide on the merits of their work, let's immerse ourselves in the 1972 Russian original. Solaris is the story of a psychologist sent to a space station orbiting the watery planet of Solaris to investigate the strange death of a doctor and mental afflictions suffered by other crew members - caused, he soon discovers, by the planet's water, which can 'think' and draws out repressed memories and obsessions. This ground-breaking cult flick (based on a short story by Stanislaw Lem) switches from black-and-white to colour and blurs past and present in an incredible examination of the human condition.