Eva Green’s career-best performance as a single-mother astronaut is an ideal launchpad for a look at cosmic adventurers from Jane Fonda to Juliette BinocheFor too long in the movies – as in life – space exploration was presented as a boy’s realm: brave, lantern-jawed men soaring off to the final frontier while their wives waited and fretted on terra firma.
A recent spate of films and TV series have redressed the balance, putting women at the centre of their stargazing narratives – few more stirringly than Proxima (multiple platforms), a superb astronaut character study from the French director Alice Winocour that gives Eva Green the role of her career.Proxima got a UK cinema release in July, but amid pandemic uncertainty never found the audience it deserved.
Now, VOD should serve as a reintroduction to a film that combines compelling space-station activity with a frank, straightforward feminist message.
Green plays Sarah,
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