Jan 29 2009
1 is the number to watch
The late Polish author Stanislaw Lem is one of those legendary, brainy sci-fi writers that filmmakers find themselves attracted to because of his atmospheric descriptions and trippy themes, but rarely ever try to tackle cinematically because of the sheer narrative and stylistic magnitude of such a task. The most famous work of his is arguably the alien planet psychodrama Solaris, which has been adapted twice, once in 1972 by visionary Russian auteur Andrei Tarkovsky, and another time 30 years later by director Steven Soderbergh and star George Clooney.
Now, a helmer by the name of Pater Sparrow has made a Hungarian production based on Lem’s novel, One Human Minute. Simply called 1, Yarrow’s film details the mysterious events that follow the appearance of a strange text (an author/publisher-less tome bearing only the title 1, of course) in a rare-book shop that reveals the fate of humanity within the equivalent of a one-minute time span.
A stylish, beautiful, English-language official website has just gone live to promote the movie, and — even better — you can find a subtitled trailer there too. Fans of thought-provoking sci-fi unite!
