TIFF19: LucyInTheSky is in awards season jeopardy despite a strong turn from Natalie Portman
Portman's straight-laced Lucy is married to a sweet but stodgy fellow NASA employee , acts as a guardian for a neglected niece and is close with her grandmother . After Lucy completes her mission, though, they don't seem as exciting to her as they used to, so she embarks on an affair with a fellow astronaut who has been to space — but even he warns her that she is merely trying to recapture the dopamine rush that she felt when she was looking down at the whole world.
Sure, there are some clunky things about the film — among them, titling it "Lucy in the Sky" and then playing the Elton John song, relentlessly changing aspect-ratios for no discernible reason and having Burstyn say to Portman, "All that astronaut dick has made you soft.
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