Eva Green’s career-best performance as a single-mother astronaut is an ideal launchpad for a look at cosmic adventurers from Jane Fonda to Juliette Binoche
For too long in the movies – as in life – space exploration was presented as a boy’s realm: brave, lantern-jawed men soaring off to the final frontier while their wives waited and fretted on terra firma. A recent spate of films and TV series have redressed the balance, putting women at the centre of their stargazing narratives – few more stirringly than Proxima (multiple platforms), a superb astronaut character study from the French director Alice Winocour that gives Eva Green the role of her career.
Proxima got a UK cinema release in July, but amid pandemic uncertainty never found the audience it deserved. Now, VOD should serve as a reintroduction to a film that combines compelling space-station activity with a frank, straightforward feminist message. Green plays Sarah,...
For too long in the movies – as in life – space exploration was presented as a boy’s realm: brave, lantern-jawed men soaring off to the final frontier while their wives waited and fretted on terra firma. A recent spate of films and TV series have redressed the balance, putting women at the centre of their stargazing narratives – few more stirringly than Proxima (multiple platforms), a superb astronaut character study from the French director Alice Winocour that gives Eva Green the role of her career.
Proxima got a UK cinema release in July, but amid pandemic uncertainty never found the audience it deserved. Now, VOD should serve as a reintroduction to a film that combines compelling space-station activity with a frank, straightforward feminist message. Green plays Sarah,...
- 11/21/2020
- by Guy Lodge
- The Guardian - Film News
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options—not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
The Dark and the Wicked (Bryan Bertino)
How then does a life-long atheist like Louise (Marin Ireland) and Michael’s (Michael Abbott Jr.) mother (Julie Oliver-Touchstone) become a believer in God? She hears the voice of the Devil. She witnesses evil incarnate and accepts her inability to combat its seemingly inevitable goal. And if she cannot stop it from terrifying her with whispers about how it is going to take the soul of her dying husband (Michael Zagst) to Hell, what besides God can? Only when they can no longer act on their own behalf do the faithless turn to Him for help. Maybe she prays. Maybe she collects...
The Dark and the Wicked (Bryan Bertino)
How then does a life-long atheist like Louise (Marin Ireland) and Michael’s (Michael Abbott Jr.) mother (Julie Oliver-Touchstone) become a believer in God? She hears the voice of the Devil. She witnesses evil incarnate and accepts her inability to combat its seemingly inevitable goal. And if she cannot stop it from terrifying her with whispers about how it is going to take the soul of her dying husband (Michael Zagst) to Hell, what besides God can? Only when they can no longer act on their own behalf do the faithless turn to Him for help. Maybe she prays. Maybe she collects...
- 11/6/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
A year after it debuted on the festival circuit, Alice Winocour’s cerebral space drama “Proxima” was beaten into wide(ish) release by Netflix’s significantly less brain-powered “Away,” which arrived on the streamer this past September, where it was greeted with iffy reviews and a surprisingly prompt cancellation from Netflix. While the central conceit of “Proxima” and “Away” is similar — a female astronaut struggles to balance her profession and her family — Winocour’s intimate, considered treatment of the material is far more satisfying,
Despite the obvious focal point of the journey, literally blasting off into space for a year-long mission on the International Space Station, “Proxima” is mostly invested in the minutiae of Sarah’s professional path and the painful intersections it has with her family life. Green, so often cast as the icy femme fatale, is devastatingly open-hearted as Sarah, believably juggling the unique pressures of both parts of her life.
Despite the obvious focal point of the journey, literally blasting off into space for a year-long mission on the International Space Station, “Proxima” is mostly invested in the minutiae of Sarah’s professional path and the painful intersections it has with her family life. Green, so often cast as the icy femme fatale, is devastatingly open-hearted as Sarah, believably juggling the unique pressures of both parts of her life.
- 11/5/2020
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Sarah (Eva Green) has dreamed of going into space for her whole life. She became an engineer, works at the European Space Agency, and has kept in physical and mental shape. And now, her time has come: she is selected to be a member of a team that will test how humans can survive the journey to Mars. Sarah will spend one year in space, cut off from everyone, and shut out from the world. But there's just one catch: Sarah has a young daughter, Stella (Zélie Boulant). How can Sarah leave her child for so long? Why would she even have a child if she wanted to be an astronaut? Alice Winocour's third feature film, Proxima, follows Sarah as she prepares for her historic...
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- 11/4/2020
- Screen Anarchy
Proxima U.S. Trailer — Vertical Entertainment has debuted the U.S. movie trailer for Proxima (2019). The first two international movie trailers for Proxima can be viewed here and here. Cast Alice Winocour‘s Proxima stars Eva Green, Matt Dillon, Lars Eidinger, Sandra Huller, Vitaly Jay, Aleksey Fateev, Zélie Boulant, Marc Fischer, [...]
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- 10/23/2020
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
Picturehouse Entertainment will kick off the reopening of U.K. cinemas with the theatrical release of Alice Winocour’s “Proxima” from July 10.
Cinemas across the U.K. closed in March due to the coronavirus pandemic. Picturehouse and Cineworld cinemas are confirmed to reopen from July 10, subject to government guidelines.
“Proxima” opened this year’s Glasgow Film Festival on Feb. 26, after playing 2019 festivals such as Tiff and San Sebastian, where it won awards, and Macau. Lead Eva Green was nominated for best actress at the Cesars in France.
“After an extremely challenging few months for everyone, we’re thrilled to be bringing back independent cinema to the big screen with a beautiful and truly cinematic new film by a director I greatly admire, Alice Winocour,” said Clare Binns, joint managing director of Picturehouse Entertainment.
“A safe environment is the priority for cinemas right now and we have every confidence that all...
Cinemas across the U.K. closed in March due to the coronavirus pandemic. Picturehouse and Cineworld cinemas are confirmed to reopen from July 10, subject to government guidelines.
“Proxima” opened this year’s Glasgow Film Festival on Feb. 26, after playing 2019 festivals such as Tiff and San Sebastian, where it won awards, and Macau. Lead Eva Green was nominated for best actress at the Cesars in France.
“After an extremely challenging few months for everyone, we’re thrilled to be bringing back independent cinema to the big screen with a beautiful and truly cinematic new film by a director I greatly admire, Alice Winocour,” said Clare Binns, joint managing director of Picturehouse Entertainment.
“A safe environment is the priority for cinemas right now and we have every confidence that all...
- 6/17/2020
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Sarah (Eva Green) has dreamed of going into space for her whole life. She became an engineer, works at the European Space Agency, and has kept in physical and mental shape. And now, her time has come: she is selected to be a member of a team that will test how humans can survive the journey to Mars. Sarah will spend one year in space, cut off from everyone, and shut out from the world. But there's just one catch: Sarah has a young daughter, Stella (Zélie Boulant). How can Sarah leave her child for so long? Why would she even have a child if she wanted to be an astronaut? Alice Winocour's third feature film, Proxima, follows Sarah as she prepares for her historic...
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- 3/8/2020
- Screen Anarchy
Rebecca Zlotowski’s An Easy Girl (Une Fille Facile) featuring Mina Farid, Zahia Dehar, Benoît Magimel, Nuno Lopes, Clotilde Courau and Lakdhar Dridi, is a Rendez-Vous with French Cinema highlight Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema Early Bird highlights in the UniFrance and Film at Lincoln Center 25th edition include Nicolas Pariser’s Alice And The Mayor (Alice Et Le maire), starring Anaïs Demoustier and Fabrice Luchini with Antoine Reinartz and Nora Hamzawi; Alice Winocour’s Proxima with Eva Green, Zélie Boulant, Matt Dillon, Sandra Hüller, and Lars Eidinger, score by Ryuichi Sakamoto; Bruno Dumont's Joan Of Arc (Jeanne), his sequel to Jeannette: The Childhood Of Joan of Arc, starring Lise Leplat Prudhomme, and Rebecca Zlotowski’s An Easy Girl (Une Fille Facile).
Opening the festival is Hirokazu Kore-eda’s The Truth (La Vérité), starring Catherine Deneuve (also in Cédric Kahn’s Happy Birthday - Fête De Famille), Juliette.
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema Early Bird highlights in the UniFrance and Film at Lincoln Center 25th edition include Nicolas Pariser’s Alice And The Mayor (Alice Et Le maire), starring Anaïs Demoustier and Fabrice Luchini with Antoine Reinartz and Nora Hamzawi; Alice Winocour’s Proxima with Eva Green, Zélie Boulant, Matt Dillon, Sandra Hüller, and Lars Eidinger, score by Ryuichi Sakamoto; Bruno Dumont's Joan Of Arc (Jeanne), his sequel to Jeannette: The Childhood Of Joan of Arc, starring Lise Leplat Prudhomme, and Rebecca Zlotowski’s An Easy Girl (Une Fille Facile).
Opening the festival is Hirokazu Kore-eda’s The Truth (La Vérité), starring Catherine Deneuve (also in Cédric Kahn’s Happy Birthday - Fête De Famille), Juliette.
- 2/24/2020
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
French writer and director Alice Winocour didn’t have much money to spend on her fourth feature, Proxima, but it’s hard to tell. A quite stunning showing from Eva Green and slick direction throughout its tight 107-minute runtime lend Winocour’s film the physical and dramatic scale of a blockbuster.
But a blockbuster it isn’t. Proxima is in truth a deep dive into the human cost of immense ambition – the sort of ambition that makes you want to go to space, leading a young daughter to ask why. Green is Sarah, a French astronaut whose lifelong dream is challenged first by the European Space Agency’s rigid training regime and second within her own home. Her daughter Stella – in a brilliant debut performance by Zélie Boulant-Lemesle – at first accepts her mother’s impressive ambition but is soon disappointed by her extended absences, finding alternative maternal role models elsewhere,...
But a blockbuster it isn’t. Proxima is in truth a deep dive into the human cost of immense ambition – the sort of ambition that makes you want to go to space, leading a young daughter to ask why. Green is Sarah, a French astronaut whose lifelong dream is challenged first by the European Space Agency’s rigid training regime and second within her own home. Her daughter Stella – in a brilliant debut performance by Zélie Boulant-Lemesle – at first accepts her mother’s impressive ambition but is soon disappointed by her extended absences, finding alternative maternal role models elsewhere,...
- 9/11/2019
- by Adam Solomons
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
A last-minute addition to a Mars mission precursor via the International Space Station, Sarah (Eva Green) is simultaneously excited and anxious. While space travel was her childhood dream, the sheer logistics of this journey dictate a year away from her young daughter Stella (Zélie Boulant). Her ex (Lars Eidinger’s astrophysicist Thomas) must confront this reality to pick up the slack as a full-time parent, but she does too considering the milestones, struggles, and joy she’ll miss. And her team leader tipping his hand to chauvinism exacerbates things by showing Sarah must go the extra mile to unfairly prove herself while traversing the inevitable rising tensions with Stella.
Writer-director Alice Winocour intentionally leaves an open-ended question hanging throughout Proxima so we can wrap our heads around the complexity of what it means to do something so profound and yet still wonder if you’re being selfish for pursuing the accomplishment.
Writer-director Alice Winocour intentionally leaves an open-ended question hanging throughout Proxima so we can wrap our heads around the complexity of what it means to do something so profound and yet still wonder if you’re being selfish for pursuing the accomplishment.
- 9/7/2019
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Moms all around the world face the arduous task of pursuing their careers while also trying to raise their children. But what about a mom who's about to go out of this world?
That’s the central question fueling French director Alice Winocour’s latest feature, Proxima, which stars Eva Green as an astronaut preparing for space travel while her young daughter, Stella — played by the luminous Zélie Boulant-Lemesle — stays back home.
Shot on location in actual training facilities in Europe, Russia and Kazakhstan, this superbly crafted yet intimate family drama is so realistic in terms of its ...
That’s the central question fueling French director Alice Winocour’s latest feature, Proxima, which stars Eva Green as an astronaut preparing for space travel while her young daughter, Stella — played by the luminous Zélie Boulant-Lemesle — stays back home.
Shot on location in actual training facilities in Europe, Russia and Kazakhstan, this superbly crafted yet intimate family drama is so realistic in terms of its ...
Moms all around the world face the arduous task of pursuing their careers while also trying to raise their children. But what about a mom who's about to go out of this world?
That’s the central question fueling French director Alice Winocour’s latest feature, Proxima, which stars Eva Green as an astronaut preparing for space travel while her young daughter, Stella — played by the luminous Zélie Boulant-Lemesle — stays back home.
Shot on location in actual training facilities in Europe, Russia and Kazakhstan, this superbly crafted yet intimate family drama is so realistic in terms of its ...
That’s the central question fueling French director Alice Winocour’s latest feature, Proxima, which stars Eva Green as an astronaut preparing for space travel while her young daughter, Stella — played by the luminous Zélie Boulant-Lemesle — stays back home.
Shot on location in actual training facilities in Europe, Russia and Kazakhstan, this superbly crafted yet intimate family drama is so realistic in terms of its ...
Exclusive: Picturehouse Entertainment has nabbed UK distribution rights to Alice Winocour’s buzzed-about upcoming astronaut drama Proxima, starring Eva Green (The Dreamers).
The buzz is strong on this one, which will have its world premiere in the Platform strand at the Toronto Film Festival before making its European debut in competition at San Sebastian.
Green plays Sarah, a French astronaut slated to leave Earth on a one-year mission on the spaceship Proxima. Amidst arduous training and as the only woman in a group of male astronauts, she must also prepare for separation from her eight-year-old daughter. Starring alongside are Oscar-nominee Matt Dillon, Lars Eidinger (Personal Shopper), Sandra Hüller (Toni Erdmann) and Alexei Fateev (Loveless).
The deal was negotiated by Clare Binns and Paul Ridd of Picturehouse with Agathe Theodore on behalf of Pathe Films. The distribution arm of Picturehouses will release the film on 17 April, 2020.
The movie is Winocour’s third feature film as director.
The buzz is strong on this one, which will have its world premiere in the Platform strand at the Toronto Film Festival before making its European debut in competition at San Sebastian.
Green plays Sarah, a French astronaut slated to leave Earth on a one-year mission on the spaceship Proxima. Amidst arduous training and as the only woman in a group of male astronauts, she must also prepare for separation from her eight-year-old daughter. Starring alongside are Oscar-nominee Matt Dillon, Lars Eidinger (Personal Shopper), Sandra Hüller (Toni Erdmann) and Alexei Fateev (Loveless).
The deal was negotiated by Clare Binns and Paul Ridd of Picturehouse with Agathe Theodore on behalf of Pathe Films. The distribution arm of Picturehouses will release the film on 17 April, 2020.
The movie is Winocour’s third feature film as director.
- 9/3/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
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