Robert Pattinson (solid) is a dad to an infant struggling to survive in deep space. Much of the story is told in flashback...until it isn't...so it bounces from the present to the past, mainly to see how the rest of the crew is offed (usually murder or suicide. Actually, ALWAYS murder or suicide). Here's the catch, since the mission is to go to the edge of space to check out a black hole, the journey takes years -- a couple of hundred, apparently -- and for the sake of the narrative, in space you don't age. Except for the baby who grows up eventually. The crew is not your typical astronaut gang; they are death row inmates who were given this "opportunity," so it's a space ship full of murders. What could go wrong? The reviews online used the word "esoteric" a lot. Once I looked up what esoteric meant, I have to agree! Sooo esoteric. Like, just too, too esoteric for words! What an esoteric movie, I dare say! Anyway, directed and co-written by "acclaimed" director Claire Denis (I ain't never heard of her and you probably haven't either), this movie plods along clumsily, slowly, dully. The ending is not...satisfying because, like the rest of the movie, it's really vague. And also .. esoteric! D

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Director Claire Denis's cerebral science fiction opus, with moments of elliptical, frequently mumbled, dialog separated by large sections of no dialog at all, recalls the ponderous sci-fi efforts of Kubrick and Tarkovsky. We are introduced to a group of convicted criminals, each apparently scheduled for execution, choosing, as an alternative, to take part in a one-way mission to a distant black hole (and no one returns from a black hole). Dibs (Juliet Binoche), a physician and also a felon, is an obviously conflicted authority figure, dispensing medicines, monitoring vitals, and, as far as possible, keeping these cooped-up criminals in line. The brooding Monte (Robert Pattinson) is a central figure in this group of misfits, and, through a process both artificial and natural (but really not that natural), he unwittingly fathers a daughter with one of his fellow voyagers. By the end--this mission takes years--the population on board this death ship is reduced to Monte and his daughter (played as a teenager by relative newcomer Jessie Ross), and the warm, trusting relationship between these two castaways is one of the signal charms of this film. This is not "Star Trek." It is in no way a thriller. And the visual effects, while often beautiful, are hardly state-of-the-art. But it is a thought-provoking film by a gifted filmmaker.

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