Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Eva GreenSarah Loreau
- Matt DillonMike Shannon
- Zélie Boulant-LemesleStella Akerman Loreau
- Lars EidingerThomas Akerman
- Sandra HüllerWendy Hauer
- Alexey FateevAnton Ochievski
- Trond-Erik VassalJurgen
- Nancy TateNaomi Shannon
- Grégoire ColinSarah's Doctor
- Igor FilippovDima
Recommendations
- 100
Screen Daily
A significant, ambitious and entirely impressive film by a dazzling young French director in full command of her ship. - 90
Variety
An unostentatious but quietly dazzling meditation on womanhood in the largely patriarchal space race, Alice Winocour’s highly satisfying third feature outdoes many more lavish Hollywood efforts in evoking the otherworldly emotional disconnect that comes with space travel, all without leaving terra firma for the vast bulk of its running time. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
This superbly crafted yet intimate family drama is so realistic in terms of its setting and technical specificity, it sometimes feels like a documentary. ... It’s perhaps a tad deliberate in spots, hitting its central theme too heavily on the nose, but Proxima pulls off an impressive balancing act between the personal and the astronomical. - 80
Empire
Another Glum Space Mum, but one who feels complex and real. While the film depicts extraordinary circumstances, it always keeps the hearts (and heads) of its mother and daughter in focus. - 80
CineVue
It’s a fiery mix of ambition, mother-daughter love, female empowerment and childhood dreams – the gravities of each masterfully held together in the film, like planets in the canvas of space, revolving harmoniously around the sun. - 80
Time Out
Winocour does brilliant work at enlarging the minute details that define the way the wind is blowing in this relationship. - 75
The Film Stage
This is a very quiet and contemplative film driven by characters above plot. - 60
Film Threat
It is that kind of “inside the life of an astronaut” angle that keeps the film reasonably engaging, even if you don’t care too much about the characters.
