Spaceman (2024)

Spaceman, directed by the Swedish Johan Renck and starring Adam Sandler and Carey Mulligan, with a screenplay adapted from the book by Jaroslav Kalfar, by Colby Day, tells us about love, loneliness and the Universe, terms that have no place nowadays since romanticism is old, loneliness is fought with social networks and the Universe, What is the Universe? Is there wifi there?

After six months on a lonely space mission, an astronaut tries to cope with his marriage problems with the help of a mysterious stowaway he finds on his spacecraft.

Adam Sandler's mix of Adam Sandler and his conversations with a spider don't do much for the mood, but it's an exceptional film.

To compare it to Solaris, Ad Astra or Moon is a critic's mistake. It has the depth of Interstellar's ending with a fresh vision of what the Universe can be, laced with the power of love for your partner.

And in the latter, I don't see any hint of ‘cloying’ (as I've read) when it's worth remembering that love is the only thing that differentiates us from AI. It makes us human and Astronaut is a humanist film.

Spaceman is philosophy and a story of friendship embodied in an alien spider that will become Adam Sandler's friend, the space ‘Wilson’, who will help him fight the loneliness of the cosmos.

You will never know if this arachnid is real or a hallucination, but you will become inexplicably fond of him.

Adam Sandler and Carey Mulligan allow us to take seriously the proposition that we are watching, both are quite restrained in a drama of forgiving and forgiving each other, which leads both actors to give us slow and quite emotional performances, something that allows us to see them shine in an encouraging way. Seeing Sandler in this register is quite satisfying.

The cinematography is beautiful, and one of us gawks at the shots of the cosmos. It's accompanied by a BSO that fits brilliantly and suspends us in the intrigue and mystery in the middle of space. Perhaps I lack a lot of context for not having read the book but I love the bohemian setting in which we are released.