2019 · drama · thriller · romance
Lucy in the Sky
Directed by Noah Hawley2h 5m2019
Astronaut Lucy Cola returns to Earth after a transcendent experience during a mission to space – and begins to lose touch with reality in a world that now seems too small.
Our read: Lucy in the Sky (2019) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive drama · thriller · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- measured
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How Lucy in the Sky feels to watch.
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“You want a surreal astronaut unraveling after space, even when the film stumbles.”
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