'Lucy in the Sky' could have been an interesting take on a real-life tabloid tale; instead, this Natalie Portman drama about a jealous astronaut is simply a stock portrait of a space-case. Read Peter Travers' review
is exemplary — tries every trick in the first-timer’s handbook, from shifting aspect ratios to skewed points of view, to give the illusion of action with a subversive agenda. In truth, there’s nothing underneath but a soap opera plot borrowed from real life. Hawley and fellow screenwriters Brian C.
Portman, of course, is too intelligent an actress to let her character slide into yesterday’s banalities. She makes us understand the sacrifices Lucy had to make to hold her own and then some in male-dominated NASA. The movie goes further by showing how the impact of the cosmos may have altered this woman’s ability to readjust, a situation worsened by her failure to be accepted in the next mission headed by her lover.
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