Synopsis
In 1930s France, two sisters who are thought to be able to communicate with ghosts meet a visionary producer while performing in Paris.
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Cast
- Natalie PortmanLaura Barlow
- Lily-Rose DeppKate Barlow
- Emmanuel SalingerAndré Korben
- Amira CasarEva Said
- Pierre SalvadoriAndré Servier
- Louis GarrelFernand Prouvé
- David BennentJuncker
- Damien ChapelleLouis
- Jerzy RogulskiProfessor Ulé
- Anaïs CouetteTraductrice cabaret
Recommendations
- 80
CineVue
Few of Planetarium's many strands are neatly tied together. There's an ambition to almost every shot as Zlotowski creates a rarified version of nighttime Paris. - 60
Screen Daily
Rebecca Zlotowski’s third feature packs in so many ideas and themes, and boasts so many ravishing and enigmatic images, that it seems choked with riches. - 50
The Film Stage
Little is left after a while until, finally, Planetarium doesn’t conclude so much as come to an end, and the lasting impression is one of bitterness — a bitterness at once sweetened and worsened by memories of the genuinely great work it had promised and, at turns, even embodied. - 50
IndieWire
A beautiful wisp of an idea that is seldom compelling and almost never coherent, Planetarium squanders an irresistibly alluring premise. - 50
The A.V. Club
Numerous potentially interesting ideas orbit one another in Planetarium, but none boasts sufficient gravity to merit a landing, it seems. - 42
The Playlist
To her credit, Zlotowski’s film does capture the lulling feeling of a séance, but there’s a gossamer-thin thread between the mysterious and the mystifying and perhaps her delicately ephemeral film just doesn’t know how to recognize the difference. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
The movie is all tease and no follow-through, letting its story leak out in dribs and drabs that fail to gather any momentum or meaning, let alone mystery. - 40
TheWrap
Though its mix of European romanticism, lustrous trappings, and nostalgic movie love can occasionally make Planetarium feel like a galaxy all its own, the effect is more illusory than enveloping.
