Every day, AlloCiné recommends a film to (re)watch on TV. Tonight: an intimate and powerful drama that will move you.
Proxima is the story of Sarah (Eva Green), a French astronaut who is preparing to leave Earth for a one-year mission. While she follows the rigorous training imposed on astronauts, the only woman among men, she is especially preparing for the separation from her eight-year-old daughter.
Released in theaters in 2019, this intimate and powerful drama, with its refined staging, is not to be missed. While it immerses the viewer in the fascinating daily life of preparing for an astronaut, it also highlights a moving mother-daughter relationship.
“I know this report well, because I have a 10-year-old little girl”, declared director Alice Winocour on our microphone during the promotion of the film. “I found this idea of leaving Earth interesting, which resonates with the girl’s separation. The scenario is thus constructed like the separation phases of a rocket. Proxima therefore deals with the subject of separation, how to manage it, but also how to manage your guilt as a mother.”
Proxima was produced with the help of the European Space Agency. The film team thus had access to the real places frequented by the astronauts, and which had never been filmed: the Cologne training center, which is the base of the European Space Agency, the closed city of Star City near Moscow and finally the Baikonur Cosmodrome, a military base surrounded by checkpoints, the only place from which rockets really leave to reach the International Space Station. Therefore, no sets were created and no models were used.
From the start of writing, Alice Winocour went to Cologne to the premises of the European Space Agency. Thomas Pesquet, who was preparing his first flight, was present. The French astronaut also makes an appearance in the film.
Tonight on Arte at 8:55 p.m.
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