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MOVIE PREVIEW FOR SWITZERLAND

 

GRAVITY

 

 

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review by dalia di giacomo + official  production notes

 

 

 

WARNER BROS. PICTURES Presents

An ESPERANTO FILMOJ Produktado

A HEYDAY FILMS Production

An ALFONSO CUARÓN Film

 

Ryan Stone ............................................................................................................................ SANDRA BULLOCK

Matt Kowalski ....................................................................................................................... GEORGE CLOONEY

Mission Control Voice ............................................................................ED HARRIS

 
 

Directed by ............................................................................................................................ ALFONSO CUARÓN

Written by .......................................................................................... ALFONSO CUARÓN & JONÁS CUARÓN

Produced by .......................................................................................................................... ALFONSO CUARÓN

DAVID HEYMAN

Executive Producers......................................................................................................................... NIKKI PENNY

CHRIS deFARIA

STEPHEN JONES

Director of Photography ........................................ EMMANUEL LUBEZKI, A.S.C., A.M.C.

Visual Effects Supervisor .................................................................................................................TIM WEBBER

 



Shown in 3D in select theatres

 

This motion picture

© 2013 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

Story and Screenplay

© 2013 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

Original Score

© 2013 Warner-Olive Music, LLC

 

   

At 600km above planet Earth, the temperature
fluctuates between +258 and -148 degrees Fahrenheit.

There is nothing to carry sound.

No air pressure.

No oxygen.

Life in space is impossible.

Don`t expect extraterrestrial interventions, don`t expect monoliths as in 2001 Space Odissey. You will just experience how fragile is our conquer of space. Humans in space? Sorry, still not our environment. We are so far away from Star Treck`s imaginific world.  

Don' t even expect deep space near Jupiter, Neptune, Alpha Centauri or on the other side of the Galaxy.  Gravity, which opened at the 70th Venice International Film Festival in August 2013,  and is directed by Oscar nominee Alfonso Cuarón (“Children of Men”), shows us that space is  immense and fearful  even when "mother Earth" so near is.. Sandra Bullock plays Dr. Ryan Stone, an engineer on her first shuttle mission, George Clooney is the veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski  in command. The mission seems to be an unproblematic, funny routine. The Hubble Telescope must be repaired. But, suddenly, mission must be aborted: debris are coming and can cause a destructive chain reaction. Then, desaster strikes. Here director Cuaron gives his best. the imminente desaster throws in seconds an incredible involving menace. The illusion of being in space is in this moment totally  convincing and terrifying. 

KOWALSKI

Houston, in the blind. To confirm:
Mission Specialist Dr. Stone and Mission Commander
Matthew Kowalski are the sole survivors of the STS-157.

 

When the shuttle is destroyed, Dr. Stone is drfting separated from the rest of the crew and  must  deal with  an emotional and physical extreme situation. And the spectator too.  From the moment that she is rescued by "mentor" pilot and commander Kowalski, always calm and reassuring in the crisis, she undertakes  her struggle for surviving and returning home. From ISS to module Soyuz, to chinese station Tiangong and finally to module Shenzhou  (good that Russians and Chinese are out there, isn`it?), she will spiraling down to earth and down in her psyche, overcoming her past and her feeling of isolation. In my opinion it seems like a metaphor about  the  rebirth of a soul.

Those who like fights with monsters (count me in) will find this movie at times a bit boring in its development, but the space frame is gigantic and marvellous. This is simply another form of action. Fear is, at times, real.The mix of computer animation and CGI is well done. 3D efffects are not so gorgeous , yet satisfactory to recreate the ambience. Moreover Cuarón and supervising sound editor and sound designer Glenn Freemantle  correlated sound and touch. No up and no down, zero gravity, only the constant , massive presence of an unreachable Earth, whose gravity you are in search of. You are floating above our (only one) planet, until you touch the burning  entrance into the  atmosphere., until you touch water and ground again.

Freemantle explains:One of the concepts of sound is that it travels through vibrations. When you touch something, it resonates through that internal connection. So Ryan is touching and coming in contact with things and you hear through her.

We were very lucky that NASA was willing to share much of the information they’ve gathered, particularly in the form of photographs and film footage. Astronauts actually make very good photographers; we got some truly stunning images. We would look at the time lapse shots they did from the ISS and say, ‘Gosh, if we did something like that, no one would believe it was real.’ It was just so amazing.” Visual Effects Supervisor Webber says.

 

 So for us,Jonás Cuarón says,the meaning of ‘Gravity’ isn’t just what 

keeps your feet on the ground. 

It’s the force that is constantly pulling you back home.




8/10

 

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written by  dalia di giacomo + official production notes

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