Proxima

A film that doesn't make me want to fast forward! It's unpretentious, down-to-earth. Music,story, acting, etc everything about it is unpretentious and therefore effective. Love how basically it says that even though humans want to reach for the stars, the main stars to be reached are people/things on Earth. Everything is right here and not out there. Superb!

I went to see this movie expecting nothing, I didn't even know it existed. We just had free tickets to the movies... And it was actually great, Eva Green's acting I think deserved an Oscar, and the little girl acts very natural, and you feel for her. Like other reviewers said, don't expect Sci-fi, it's a very realistic depiction of an astronaut's training, no glamour here, no Hollywood super clean and modern spin on it. Just real looking people working super hard to achieve a great feat. Tl:Dr Don't expect Sci-fi, it's a very well written family drama during a very realistic and raw depiction of an astronaut training, the acting is great too.

Although the acting was very good at best, (***Spoiler Alert***), the story was flat....about the personal turmoil of one astronauts about to leave her daughter for a year. There could have been a "consequence" built into the story line to make the movie more interesting with some intensity....but the writers didn't go in that direction, which ultimately failed in the end. I could have written three possible better endings. Instead, we just watched a mother and young 8 year old daughter go through their personal journeys, all the while seeing the mother astronaut not dealing well with leaving, resisting and breaking the rules, putting her co astronauts at risk..... and then the rocket takes off. I felt it didn't make for a very captivating and interesting story. Actually one stays with the movie "waiting" for the story to turn to some struggling epoch ending....and it doesn't. There it fails.