The Astronaut (L’astronaute) has its UK première at the Glasgow Film Festival 2023 “Ever since I was a kid I dreamed of space,” says Jim Desforges (Nicolas Giraud), too far into The Astronaut (L’astronaute) for this to be a direct lift of the famous opening line from Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas (1990), but verbally close enough…
Tropic (Tropique) had its UK première at the Glasgow Film Festival 2023 Tropic (Tropique) begins in water, as young people in a pool try, under test conditions, to stay on the bottom for the longest amount of time, holding their breath. Edouard Salier’s sci-fi feature is set in a near future where nations are vying…
The Fountain first published by EyeForFilm, Jan 2007 The 16th century. Under siege from the Grand Inquisitor, Queen Isabella of Spain (Rachel Weisz) sends her faithful conquistador Tomas (Hugh Jackman) on a desperate mission to New Spain to find a lost Mayan temple said to conceal the Tree of Life that can confer eternal youth…
Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh’s feature debut opens with actual black-and-white newsreel footage of pioneering Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin arriving in Ivry-sur-Seine, a southeastern suburb of Paris, before a cheering crowd of Caucasian locals. There, in 1963, he ceremonially inaugurated a housing project that bore his name, the Cité Gagarine – a groundbreaking socialist hero…
Interstellar first published by Grolsch FilmWorks The opening of Interstellar, the latest head-spinning, heart-breaking blockbuster from Christopher Nolan, introduces a paradox. We know we are in an Earth of the future, where humankind is faced with terminal decline as ever more frequent dust clouds and blight devastate the crops that feed the planet – and yet we…