Hello, dear readers! While the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival wrapped up a few weeks ago now, I have two final reviews from the fest that I wanted to share before we move onto other fests and events this summer. Here are my thoughts on Attachment from Gabriel Bier Gislason and Kyra Sedwick’s Space Oddity, which isn’t technically a genre film but I wanted to check it out all the same.
Enjoy!
Attachment: For writer/director Gabriel Bier Gislason’s Attachment, a meet-cute between two women yearning for some kind of connectivity in life takes a sinister turn once it is revealed that a dangerous demonic force threatens to destroy not only their relationship but their very lives as well. Attachment is a confidently crafted debut feature from Gislason that thoughtfully examines Jewish folklore in ways I haven’t seen before (it would pair well with The Vigil) and it...
Enjoy!
Attachment: For writer/director Gabriel Bier Gislason’s Attachment, a meet-cute between two women yearning for some kind of connectivity in life takes a sinister turn once it is revealed that a dangerous demonic force threatens to destroy not only their relationship but their very lives as well. Attachment is a confidently crafted debut feature from Gislason that thoughtfully examines Jewish folklore in ways I haven’t seen before (it would pair well with The Vigil) and it...
- 7/2/2022
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Blasting off Sunday evening at the Tribeca Festival, Space Oddity is a small, character-driven dramedy of one young man’s odd life-altering plan to take a one-way ticket to Mars just as love and family intervene on his plans. If that premise sounds improbable, it actually is the kind of thing that seems to be popping up lately as fodder for various indie-centric film festivals. Earlier this year at SXSW, we saw comedian Jim Gaffigan in Linoleum, where he plays a father and husband whose lifelong dream of being an astronaut takes flight when he builds a rocket ship in his garage to do just that. Like Space Oddity, which comes from Kyra Sedgwick directing a Black List script by Rebecca Banner, that film focused on the rather offbeat behavior of its central character, much to the chagrin of his family.
Kyle Allen stars as Alex McAllister, who announces he...
Kyle Allen stars as Alex McAllister, who announces he...
- 6/13/2022
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
‘Space Oddity’ Film Review: Kyra Sedgwick’s Family Drama About a Cosmos-Obsessed Son Never Lifts Off
Billionaires may see funding space travel as the best recourse for an uninhabitable planet, but everyday folk have escape issues, too, albeit for more relatable reasons.
In the indie drama “Space Oddity,” the rocketing-to-Mars dreams of a space-obsessed young man are a barely concealed cover for lingering grief. That’s a compelling set-up for a knotty family story, but not as evidenced by the surface cutes that keep real feeling at bay in this curiously uninvolving directorial effort from Kyra Sedgwick.
We meet wholesome-looking Alex McAllister as he delivers some eager, presentational voiceover about “mankind’s next chapter,” along with glimpses of space-travel paraphernalia, and shots of him running through flower fields and woods to a percolating, galactic-tinged score out of a planetarium show. An astronaut in training, Alex is thrilled to be part of a privately funded, hotly hyped program aimed at colonizing Mars where, Alex tells us in voiceover,...
In the indie drama “Space Oddity,” the rocketing-to-Mars dreams of a space-obsessed young man are a barely concealed cover for lingering grief. That’s a compelling set-up for a knotty family story, but not as evidenced by the surface cutes that keep real feeling at bay in this curiously uninvolving directorial effort from Kyra Sedgwick.
We meet wholesome-looking Alex McAllister as he delivers some eager, presentational voiceover about “mankind’s next chapter,” along with glimpses of space-travel paraphernalia, and shots of him running through flower fields and woods to a percolating, galactic-tinged score out of a planetarium show. An astronaut in training, Alex is thrilled to be part of a privately funded, hotly hyped program aimed at colonizing Mars where, Alex tells us in voiceover,...
- 6/13/2022
- by Robert Abele
- The Wrap
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