'Proxima' Trailer: Alice Wincour Shoots Eva Green Into Space For A Year

Fall 2019 had at least two female-led astronaut films hitting the fall film festival circuit at the same time. Noah Hawley‘s “Lucy In The Sky,” starring Natalie Portman, crashed down to earth in a blaze of negative reviews. Still, the slightly-lesser-known films, Alice Winocour’s intimate drama, “Proxima” was way better received and won the Blur vs. Oasis battle of female lead astronaut clashes of fall 2019.

Described as a “career-best” for lead actress Eva Green by many, she stars in “Proxima” as an astronaut preparing to leave both her seven-year-old daughter and her planet behind. Proxima premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival and proceeded to run the festival circuit where it won the Special Jury Prize at San Sebastian Film Festival. Vertical Entertainment has now released the trailer for the film that also stars Matt Dillon, Lars Eidinger, Sandra Hüller, and comes from celebrated French writer/director Alice Wincour, known for “Disorder,” “Mustang,” and “Augustine.”

Here’s the official synopsis:

Sarah (Eva Green) 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 be part of the crew of a year-long space mission called ‘Proxima,’ it creates chaos in the mother-daughter relationship.

Vertical Entertainment will release “Proxima” on November 6, 2020 (Digital and VOD). Watch the first trailer below and dream about who you might want to launch into space, perhaps the President of the United States, maybe?