Written by Josh Singer (The Post, Spotlight, The West Wing), from James Hansen's biography.
Has a doozy of a soundtrack - moon rocket sounds include horses, lions and even hissing snakes. Or as supervising sound editor Ai-Ling Lee puts it, 'The craft is like a howling creature they are riding in'. I'm as guilty as the next man for not paying enough attention to sound design, but on this film it's pretty difficult to ignore. (With Mildred Iatrou.)
Damian's decision to make a documentary style recreation of events, to make the audience feel the primitivity and danger, is well caught. He shot over a million feet of film, and Tom Cross found himself looking for little zoom cuts and flashes and other things he would normally steer around. The on board footage is often so jumpy and jerky that it's like being in an experimental film.
And then the silences...
This is all well carried by Ryan Gosling and Claire Foy, and particularly makes the most of the emotional journey following the death of their daughter.
Rest of cast: Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler, Corey Stoll, Patrick Fugit, Christopher Abbott, Ciaran Hinds, Olivia Hamilton.
Justin Hurwitz' score memorable - not often you hear a theremin these days. Linus Sandgren's photography remarkable as ever - he seems to have a particular knack for magic hour sequences.
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| Like last time, it wasn't until I came to take screen shots did I realise the film is in a variety of aspect ratios |
I enjoyed it more than last time and disagree with most of my own 'notes'.
Spielberg was an executive producer.
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