Movies with Mary: Dark is The Midnight Sky
Mary Cox The Telegraph
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If you want to be completely depressed and bored, “The Midnight Sky” is the movie for you. A Netflix original, this is a space movie, set in 2049.
Dying scientist Augustine (Academy Award-winner George Clooney) is working alone at a remote Arctic research station when he learns of a mysterious global disaster. At the same time, he discovers a mute 7-year-old girl, Iris (Caoilinn Springall), who was accidentally abandoned in the Arctic when her mother was evacuated. He enlists her help to stop the Aether spaceship from returning to Earth from K23, a moon of Jupiter that was inhabitable for Earthlings.
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âThe Midnight Skyâ is available in theaters and on Netflix, as is âMa Raineyâs Black Bottom.â âHerselfâ opens in limited release in theaters this week and on Amazon Prime beginning January 8.
THE MIDNIGHT SKY
A dark dystopian epic tale elevated by its stunning visuals by cinematographer Martin Ruhe and a powerful performance from lead actor and director George Clooney, âThe Midnight Skyâ takes place during 2049 on a doomed Earth, and, in outer space aboard Aether, a space craft returning to Earth from K-23, one of Jupiterâs moons.
Based on âGood Morning, Midnightâ by Lily Brooks-Dalton, the sci-fi drama focuses on astronomer Augustine (Clooney), who stays behind at his post near the Arctic Circle while everyone evacuates because of an unnamed worldwide catastrophe.
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The Midnight Sky: Too tedious to thrill
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The Midnight Sky: Too tedious to thrill (IANS Review; Rating: and 1/2 ). Image Source: IANS News
The Midnight Sky; Cast: George Clooney, Ethan Peck, Felicity Jones, David Oyelowo, Tiffany Boone, Demian Bichir, Kyle Chandler, Caoilinn Springall; Direction: George Clooney; Direction: and 1/2 (two and a half stars)BY VINAYAK CHAKRAVORTY
George Clooney s new film is fascinating for the ominous mood it conveys visually. Set against the aftermath of a global catastrophe, the sci-fi drama has poignant core, too. You spot profound intent in storytelling, and the comment it sets out to impart is an urgent one.
Director/star George Clooney’s
The Midnight Sky, an alternately moving and exciting mediation on the apocalypse, is now available to stream on Netflix.
The year is 2049 and something in the air is killing everyone and everything on Earth. Whatever it is (we’re never told), it spreads like a radiation cloud (which it might be) and will soon consume the whole planet. It’s literally the End of the World, and after having come to terms with that fact, a scientific base in the Arctic is being evacuated so everyone can go and be with their families. Left behind is Augustine Lofthouse (George Clooney), a scientist whose obsessive dedication to his work has ensured he has no one to go home to.