Film - The Midnight Sky

If you need a film about isolation, the world changing beyond recognition and losing loved ones, this one is it.

Earth is being evaluated, former space explorer Augustine (George Clooney) stays behind at the space station, to alert the spaceship that’s lost communications while on it’s way back home. At least he thinks he is alone until a little girl pops up. In the most challenging watch of the film, they, make their way across the arctic to reach a place where they expect a better signal to resume communication.

Onboard are a handful of, let’s call them all explorers, desperate to make contact with their loved ones. One of them is pregnant which adds to the tension.

The Midnight Sky owes much to recent successes such as Gravity (Clooney again), Interstellar and even Moon.  The film asks questions while giving none of the answers although we need to figure those ourselves with a little delay before this film becomes a reality.

Because we are looking for answers, this is gripping to the end.

7/10