The apocalypse is predictable in George Clooney’s The Midnight Sky Clooney plays an ailing astronomer staring down the end of the world in this terminally flawed Netflix drama by Norman Wilner on December 17th, 2020 at 3:00 PM 1 of 1 2 of 1
The Midnight Sky
The most frustrating thing about
The Midnight Sky is that you can see a way for it to work. Or at least I could; just a couple of minor tweaks move this revelation up here, tweak that casting choice, fix this tonal decision and George Clooney’s mournful drama about the choices we make at the end of the world could have landed with the power he clearly intends.
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At least there ll be coffee at the end of the world.
THE MIDNIGHT SKY (George Clooney). 118 minutes. Available to stream December 23 on Netflix Canada. Rating:
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The most frustrating thing about The Midnight Sky is that you can see a way for it to work. Or at least I could; just a couple of minor tweaks – move this revelation up here, tweak that casting choice, fix this tonal decision – and George Clooney’s mournful drama about the choices we make at the end of the world could have landed with the power he clearly intends.
But Clooney made the movie he wanted to make, and … no.
Netflix
Suburbicon, was universally panned on its 2017 release, but the actor-turned-director is now back with
The Midnight Sky, a deeply moving post-apocalyptic sci-fi drama in which he also stars. Adapted from Lily Brooks-Dalton’s best-selling 2016 novel,
Goo
d Morning, Midnight, it follows a survivor of an apocalyptic event attempting to salvage what is left of humanity.
It is set in 2049 in the wake of an unspecified global catastrophe that has rendered the planet largely uninhabitable. Augustine Lofthouse (Clooney) is the sole resident at an Arctic circle research facility, trying to beam signals to a spaceship that is returning home after seeking out new worlds. The ship’s oblivious crew, desperate to be reunited with their loved ones, are puzzled when they fail to communicate with Earth. As their journey proceeds, pregnant Sully Rembshire (Felicity Jones) and Commander Gordon Adewole (David Oyelowo), the unborn child’s father, encounter further obstacles. There is
Staring into the void
Staring into the void
Actor-director George Clooney opens up about post-apocalyptic flick The Midnight Sky and the concept of family and mortality
published : 15 Dec 2020 at 04:00
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George Clooney is probably best-known to Hollywood fans as a true screen icon, Oscar-winning actor, and the heartthrob of every woman s dreams. However, it may surprise some to learn that the man has also cultivated himself a directing career and that he has been behind the camera for nearly 20 years from his debut in Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind (2002), historical drama Good Night, And Good Luck (2005), political thriller The Ides Of March (2011), to his most recent collaboration with the Coen Brothers in Suburbicon (2017).