Proxima

Nov 27, 2019

1h 47m

★ 6.2

Overview

Sarah is a French astronaut training at the European Space Agency in Cologne. She is the only woman in the arduous program. She lives alone with Stella, her seven year old daughter. Sarah feels guilty that she cannot spend more time with her child. Her love is overpowering, unsettling. When Sarah is chosen to join the crew of a year-long space mission called Proxima, it creates chaos in the mother-daughter relationship.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Dharamsala

Pandora Film

Pathé

France 3 Cinéma

Darius Films

Proxima Trailers

Cast

Sarah Loreau

Eva Green

Mike Shannon

Matt Dillon

Stella Akerman Loreau

Zélie Boulant-Lemesle

Thomas Akerman

Lars Eidinger

Wendy Hauer

Sandra Hüller

Anton Ochievski

Alexey Fateev

Jurgen

Trond-Erik Vassal

Naomi Shannon

Nancy Tate

Sarah's Doctor

Grégoire Colin

Dima

Igor Filippov

Vera

Svetlana Nekhoroshikh

Russian Journalist

Anna Sherbinina

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