Proxima
Drama
6.227/10
|FR
|fr
|107 min
Release Date: 2019-11-27
Overview - 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.
Production Companies
DharamsalaPandora FilmPathéFrance 3 CinémaDarius Films
User Reviews
Stephen Campbell
7/10
**_An emotive family drama that will disappoint those hoping for sci-fi bombast_** >_Anyone who sits on top of the largest hydrogen-oxygen fuelled system in the world, knowing they're going to light the bottom, and doesn't get a little worried, does not fully understand the situation._ - Cpt. John Young (commander of the _Columbia_ for STS-1 in 1981, the inaugural spaceflight of NASA's Space...
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SWITCH.
8/10
'Proxima' isn't a visually flashy film, it's naturalistic and almost documentary-like in its approach - the end credits are even accompanied by photos of real-life female astronauts. But this only enhances the intimacy of this earthbound drama about a high-achieving woman's trauma at the thought of leaving her young daughter behind her. - Jake Watt Read Jake's full article... https://www.make...
