2024 · sci-fi · adventure · drama
Spaceman
Directed by Johan Renck1h 48m2024
Six months into a solo mission, a lonely astronaut confronts the cracks in his marriage with help from a mysterious creature he discovers on his ship.
Our read: Spaceman (2024) reads as a sombre, kinetic, surreal sci-fi · adventure · drama entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured sci-fi / adventure, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- inventive
- epic-stakes
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How Spaceman feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want quiet space loneliness, marriage regret, and Adam Sandler in serious mode.”
Skip it tonight — Slow cosmic melancholy sounds like a chore after a long day.
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