‘The Astronaut’ Review: Kate Mara’s Close Encounters Come Back To Haunt In Modest Sci-Fi Psychological Thriller – SXSW
deadline.comThink Close Encounters of the Third Kind meets Arrival meets E.T. The Extra Terrestrial meets The Martian meets Gravity and you pretty much have the cinematic inspirations for the latest outer-space entry known simply as The Astronaut, although you have to hand it to debuting writer-director Jess Varley for adding a twist none of the above remotely thought of.
Whether audiences will buy it is a larger question for this film, which is premiering at SXSW in the Narrative Spotlight section.
Kate Mara, who was actually earthbound in The Martian, this time gets the Matt Damon role of an astronaut, Sam Walker, returning to Earth after a very long time in isolation in outer space.
Her reentry into society isn’t a smooth one and she is informed she almost died before splashdown due to some sort of mysterious force that physically touched her.
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