On the night of the discovery of a duplicate planet in the solar system, an ambitious young student and an accomplished composer cross paths in a tragic accident.
Another Earth is less interested in space travel than the minor complexities of flawed human interaction.
Marling’s breakout film thrums with restrained thought and feeling. Flawed but fully felt, it’s a trip worth taking for those who like sci-fi small-scale but full of soul and ideas.
A small, personal indie with a huge cinematic and intellectual appetite. It may be too lo-fi for some tastes but it sparks the brain and moves the heart. It also introduces Marling as a bright new star — singular.
A small, intelligent movie and I did enjoy the slow creep of Rhoda and John towards reconnection. Best of all, the ending is unexpected, understated and rather brilliantly frustrating.
A strange charmer of a movie.
Lo-fi sci-fi is starkly complelling, but cops out at the end.
A strange, gloomy, moderately acted damp squib of a movie.
An admirable debut feature.
Full of promise. Keep an eye on Cahill.
More arty nonsense.
Marling and Mapother are very good as penitent martyr and depressed victim, their relationship a timebomb ticking down to revelation, but the sci-fi premise keeps bumping on the doorways of credibility.
A grainy, dirge-like indie misery fest masquerading as a high-concept sci-fi allegory.
So everything almost becomes internalised by Cahill’s characters and it’s hard to tell whether he intends to do this in the film, leaving a lot of unanswered questions at the end of it all.
The film moves as slowly as a heavenly body and is as contrived as it sounds.
Haunting.
By the end...Another Earth feels as if it hasn't fulfilled its potential.
This is a shallow rather than touching experience.
Dreaming of a second life
Brit Marling, star of Another Earth
Interview: Brit Marling
Mike Cahill
Cameo, Edinburgh from Friday December 30, 2011, until Thursday January 5, 2012. More info: http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/
Edinburgh Filmhouse, Edinburgh from Friday January 6, 2012, until Sunday January 8, 2012. More info: www.filmhousecinema.com
Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow from Sunday January 15, 2012, until Tuesday January 17, 2012. More info: http://www.glasgowfilm.org/theatre/
macrobert, Stirling from Saturday January 21, 2012, until Monday January 23, 2012. More info: www.macrobert.org
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