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The Astronaut's Wife (1999)
Underrated Eerie Sci-Fi Thriller About Love And Trust
"The Astronaut's Wife," written and directed by Rand Ravich, has a creepy a suspenseful idea at its heart: what if the one you love is no longer the same person. Or have you lost your sanity.
Johnny Depp plays NASA astronaut Spencer Armacost who, while on a space mission experiences an explosion and loses contact with Earth for two minutes. He and his copilot, Alex Streck (Nick Cassavetes), return home to their wives, Jillian Armacost (Charlize Theron) and Natalie Streck (Donna Murphy) and something is not quite right.
"The Astronaut's Wife" builds around the suspicion that something strange happened during those two minutes, or is it Charlize Theron's sanity. It's a psychological Sci-Fi thriller not a million miles away from Andrzej Zulawski's Possession.
Ignore the bad reviews. This movie will be respected in time.
Johnny Depp plays NASA astronaut Spencer Armacost who, while on a space mission experiences an explosion and loses contact with Earth for two minutes. He and his copilot, Alex Streck (Nick Cassavetes), return home to their wives, Jillian Armacost (Charlize Theron) and Natalie Streck (Donna Murphy) and something is not quite right.
"The Astronaut's Wife" builds around the suspicion that something strange happened during those two minutes, or is it Charlize Theron's sanity. It's a psychological Sci-Fi thriller not a million miles away from Andrzej Zulawski's Possession.
Ignore the bad reviews. This movie will be respected in time.
Nimic (2019)
Do you have the time?
So goes the first lines in Yorgos Lanthimos' odd little 2019 short: "Excuse me. Do you have the time?" The answer, at a runtime of 12 minutes is.... maybe? For fans of Lanthimos... Yes?
Nimic, like the title suggests, is slightly off, not quite right, not quite 'mimic,' and nothing here is quite resolved. Apart from, that is, a mood, a surreal little ride, a feeling of unease.
Father, the film's blank protagonist (tricky ground here), meets a woman on a subway, only to find himself followed, 'Mimicked,' and the absurdity of this, like in many of Lanthimos' films, is accepted by his family.
So perhaps too should the viewer when watching Nimic.
"Nimic," Romanian for "Nothing" - is a word also present in the film: from the way its characters fill voids, wear dull expressions; the film's narrative itself with no concrete answer. What should be expected here is the fun of the experimentation, the cinematography (a great camera whip), the soundtrack, and simply that.
Nimic, like the title suggests, is slightly off, not quite right, not quite 'mimic,' and nothing here is quite resolved. Apart from, that is, a mood, a surreal little ride, a feeling of unease.
Father, the film's blank protagonist (tricky ground here), meets a woman on a subway, only to find himself followed, 'Mimicked,' and the absurdity of this, like in many of Lanthimos' films, is accepted by his family.
So perhaps too should the viewer when watching Nimic.
"Nimic," Romanian for "Nothing" - is a word also present in the film: from the way its characters fill voids, wear dull expressions; the film's narrative itself with no concrete answer. What should be expected here is the fun of the experimentation, the cinematography (a great camera whip), the soundtrack, and simply that.
Voyagers (2021)
Undeservedly Slammed
Undeservedly slammed.
It seems every person who reviews this film, at least on Imdb, feels extremely intellectually proud of themselves for having read, or perhaps only heard of a novel.
Yes, this is Lord Of The Flies in space.
And?
What a great idea! Let's run with that.
And there is more here: a great sci-fi setting for a Huis Clos, some lovely sci-fi genre trope, and pretty damn great acting (Tye Sheridan, Lily-Rose Depp, and a frankly quite terrifying Fionn Whitehead).
The pace is great. There is a menacing soundtrack. And without getting into spoilers, some very evocative editing work used for emotional shifts.
Get off your high horse.
It seems every person who reviews this film, at least on Imdb, feels extremely intellectually proud of themselves for having read, or perhaps only heard of a novel.
Yes, this is Lord Of The Flies in space.
And?
What a great idea! Let's run with that.
And there is more here: a great sci-fi setting for a Huis Clos, some lovely sci-fi genre trope, and pretty damn great acting (Tye Sheridan, Lily-Rose Depp, and a frankly quite terrifying Fionn Whitehead).
The pace is great. There is a menacing soundtrack. And without getting into spoilers, some very evocative editing work used for emotional shifts.
Get off your high horse.