Proxima

 

Proxima 2019

• Director: Alice Winocour
• Based on the book: No
• Cast: Eva Green, Zélie Boulant, Matt Dillon, Aleksey Fateev, Lars Eidinger, Sandra Hüller
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Eva Green – Euphoria, Miss Pergrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Dark Shadows, Perfect Sense, The Golden Compass, Casino Royale
• Matt Dillon – Crash, Beautiful Girls, Rumble Fish
• Lars Eidinger – High Life, Clouds over Sils Maria
• Why? Possibly interesting.
• Seen: 12 April 2024 

       Engineer Sara (Green) has been chosen for the last space mission before sending people to Mars. She will be gone a year. Her little daughter (Boulant) will be living with Sara’s ex, the girl’s father (Eidinger).

       It’s not an action film, it’s all about the preparations for the flight and Sara’s relationship with her daughter. While it’s a worthy portrayal of the problems of working mothers being gone a long time, as a film it just doesn’t make a big splash. I can’t help but think, ‘I guess guy astronauts don’t have kids, huh?’

       Towards the end when Sara breaks quarantine to be with her daughter the film loses all credibility and essentially destroys the premise of a professional, scientific, serious astronaut.      

2* of 5