Movie Review – The Midnight Sky (2020)
Directed by George Clooney.
Starring George Clooney, Felicity Jones, Kyle Chandler, Demián Bichir, David Oyelowo, Tiffany Boone, Caoilinn Springall, Sophie Rundle, and Ethan Peck.
SYNOPSIS:
A lone scientist in the Arctic races to contact a crew of astronauts returning home to a mysterious global catastrophe.
Those hoping that Netflix were set to wrap up 2020 by throwing yet another awards-chasing hat into the ring may be left a little deflated by George Clooney’s
The Midnight Sky, an enticingly glossy and respectably ambitious sci-fi thriller that nevertheless feels like a jigsaw puzzle with a few pieces too many.
Felicity Jones and David Oyelowo in ‘The Midnight Sky’
FT: What is your carbon footprint pet peeve?
DO: When my kids are brushing their teeth and they leave the tap water on – that’s quite annoying! Or when someone is doing the dishes and their using more water than they need.
FJ: Lights! Not switching the lights off when you leave a room.
FT: Is that something your parents didn’t like too?
FJ: Absolutely! It’s so hard to break. I go around turning off lights. Just like my mother.
DO: It’s seeing my electricity bill…that does it for me! That’s enough motivation!
Netflix
Suburbicon, was universally panned on its 2017 release, but the actor-turned-director is now back with
The Midnight Sky, a deeply moving post-apocalyptic sci-fi drama in which he also stars. Adapted from Lily Brooks-Dalton’s best-selling 2016 novel,
Goo
d Morning, Midnight, it follows a survivor of an apocalyptic event attempting to salvage what is left of humanity.
It is set in 2049 in the wake of an unspecified global catastrophe that has rendered the planet largely uninhabitable. Augustine Lofthouse (Clooney) is the sole resident at an Arctic circle research facility, trying to beam signals to a spaceship that is returning home after seeking out new worlds. The ship’s oblivious crew, desperate to be reunited with their loved ones, are puzzled when they fail to communicate with Earth. As their journey proceeds, pregnant Sully Rembshire (Felicity Jones) and Commander Gordon Adewole (David Oyelowo), the unborn child’s father, encounter further obstacles. There is
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