Gravity (2013)

Release date: 2013-10-04
Country: UK|USA
Language: English|Greenlandic
Director: Alfonso Cuarón
Production Co: Warner Bros., Esperanto Filmoj, Heyday Films
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Science Fiction
Rating: 7.7/10
Length: 1h 31min

Storyline

Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski (George Clooney) in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone - tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness.

Plot Keywords

female protagonist, space station, sole survivor, self sacrifice, long take, despair, suspense, female hero, written by director, minimal cast, race against time, marooned, survivor, panic, underwater scene, hallucination, spacesuit, fire, fire extinguisher, zero gravity

Short Review

It's a technical marvel -- appropriately breathtaking in its evocation of space's vastness and the buffeting suffered by the two astronauts in their efforts to anchor themselves to something solid. But Cuaron also knows how suspense works.