2011 · sci-fi · comedy · space
Extraterrestrial
Directed by Nacho Vigalondo1h 30m2011
Everyone knows what to do if one morning the sky would be absolutely full of UFOs: run as fast as you can. However, what would happen if the invasion started while you are in the flat of the girl of your dreams, the one you have just met?
Our read: Extraterrestrial (2011) reads as a warm, steady, inventive sci-fi · comedy · space entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle sci-fi / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- gentle
- inventive
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