Earth is dying, this much we know, and watching as civilization scrambles to find some kind of escape in George Clooney’s
The Midnight Sky is both hard to digest and a beautiful feat of storytelling. Separated into two storylines— one of Augustine (Clooney) stuck, isolated, on Earth, and that of a crew coming back from trying to find a planet for humanity to survive on—the film is a look at the struggle of survival and the relationships we’re willing to sacrifice that for.
Augustine, a scientist, decides to stay behind at his arctic station, not evacuating with the rest of the families and crew there, alone in a snow-filled place—that is, until he finds a young girl named Iris (Caoilinn Springall) and is suddenly determined to get them out of there.