Sans gravité
2018 · 8m · France
Directed by Charline Parisot, Jérémy Cissé, Fioretta Caterina Cosmidis, Flore Allier-Estrada, Maud Lemaître-Blanchart, Ludovic Abraham
Genres: coming-of-age, drama, sci-fi
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, surreal
Oscar, an astronaut who has lived only for space, returns to Earth and feels lost, struggling to readjust to a world where everything seems so heavy.
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The scouts
The premise wants to be a metaphor for alienation, but it plays it straight—there's no irreverent twist, no genre sabotage, just a sincere sci-fi parable that's been done better by people with half the budget.
Six directors working in concert on a film about weightlessness and re-entry; the formal restraint here—how they let negative space and sound design carry the existential weight—situates itself squarely in the lineage of Tarkovsky and contemporary European sf cinema.
The choice to make the astronaut's return tactile rather than psychological—showing us the crush of gravity through texture and small physical gestures rather than voiceover—is what transforms a familiar premise into something that actually breathes.