2019 · drama · space
Proxima
Directed by Alice Winocour1h 47m2019
Sarah is a French astronaut training at the European Space Agency in Cologne. She is the only woman in the arduous program. She lives alone with Stella, her seven year old daughter. Sarah feels guilty that she cannot spend more time with her child. Her love is overpowering, unsettling. When Sarah is chosen to join the crew of a year-long space mission called Proxima, it creates chaos in the mother-daughter relationship.
Our read: Proxima (2019) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded drama · space entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, steady, measured drama / space, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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