Expressions of Emotions Through the Colour Blue: Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris and Andrei Zvyagintsev’s The Return
Expressions of Emotions Through the Colour Blue: Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris and Andrei Zvyagintsev’s The Return

Summary/Abstract: Russians are a very particular kind in cinematography. The way they express themselves will never resemble the West and it has a lot to do with visual choices. The way our souls perceive their work will always be related to the way our eyes register colours and textures, and those colours will be a second character to the story. There are many studies that believe that colours and emotions are directly linked, yet we need to face the fact that many of these correlations happen due to the hundreds of years of associations between a certain colour and a certain emotion. However uncertain this link may be, what remains a fact is that Russian and former USSR countries give birth to an expressionism of colour in their movies that is undisputable. In fact, in their films in many ways storytelling is so related to colours that sometimes we forget that other methods exist, and we let ourselves completely submerged in their Blue.

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