First Man (2018)
Country: US/JAP
Technical: col/2.39:1 141m
Director: Damien Chazelle
Cast: Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler, Ciarán Hinds
Synopsis:
The story of the Gemini and Apollo programmes, and how Neil Armstrong subsumed his grief over his dead child in the pursuit of a common goal, almost to the destruction of his family.
Review:
Such a highly introspective take on the space race really requires the novel format to do it justice, especially with the famously inscrutable Mr Gosling at its centre, and there are stretches of this admirably produced picture that frankly stretch audience endurance. By the time we lift off from the Moon, we are grateful for an elliptical cut back to Earth some days later. However, the tossing of the bangle is an affecting moment, and must rank alongside Matthew McConaughey's video-mail scene in Interstellar, and Keir Dullea's rebirth in 2001, as a classic juxtaposition of the personal with the infinite.
Country: US/JAP
Technical: col/2.39:1 141m
Director: Damien Chazelle
Cast: Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler, Ciarán Hinds
Synopsis:
The story of the Gemini and Apollo programmes, and how Neil Armstrong subsumed his grief over his dead child in the pursuit of a common goal, almost to the destruction of his family.
Review:
Such a highly introspective take on the space race really requires the novel format to do it justice, especially with the famously inscrutable Mr Gosling at its centre, and there are stretches of this admirably produced picture that frankly stretch audience endurance. By the time we lift off from the Moon, we are grateful for an elliptical cut back to Earth some days later. However, the tossing of the bangle is an affecting moment, and must rank alongside Matthew McConaughey's video-mail scene in Interstellar, and Keir Dullea's rebirth in 2001, as a classic juxtaposition of the personal with the infinite.
Country: US/JAP
Technical: col/2.39:1 141m
Director: Damien Chazelle
Cast: Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler, Ciarán Hinds
Synopsis:
The story of the Gemini and Apollo programmes, and how Neil Armstrong subsumed his grief over his dead child in the pursuit of a common goal, almost to the destruction of his family.
Review:
Such a highly introspective take on the space race really requires the novel format to do it justice, especially with the famously inscrutable Mr Gosling at its centre, and there are stretches of this admirably produced picture that frankly stretch audience endurance. By the time we lift off from the Moon, we are grateful for an elliptical cut back to Earth some days later. However, the tossing of the bangle is an affecting moment, and must rank alongside Matthew McConaughey's video-mail scene in Interstellar, and Keir Dullea's rebirth in 2001, as a classic juxtaposition of the personal with the infinite.