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Film · 2019

Proxima

Directed by Alice Winocour · starring Eva Green, Zélie Boulant and Matt Dillon

  • 1 h 47 min
  • Drama · Action · Family
  • France
  • 6.8 AverageMovieNCo
  • 5.6 Users2 votes
  • 8.0 Critics4 reviews

Synopsis

Sarah (Eva Green) is a French astronaut who lives by herself in Colony, Germany, with her beloved seven-year-old daughter, Stella (Sandra Hüller). She is the only woman in the European Special Agency, where she works. Her role at the agency takes up a lot of time that she'd also like to spend with her daughter. The demanding nature of her work increases when she is offered the opportunity to go on a year long's space trip. The mission, called Proxima, becomes a serious problem in both Sarah and Stella's lives. Motherly love will face the immensity of deep space in this Alice Winocour film. The film seeks to apply feminist nuances to the injustices and pressure suffered by Eva Green's character as a single mother. The film seeks an exhaustive exploration of the effort suffered by the protagonist, as a metaphor for women in a historically "men's" work, and how she manages to maintain her firm convictions in an eminently masculine and macho ecosystem. The filmmaker Alice Winocour turns the film into an essay about the problems women have that decide to have a working life while being happy with their daughters although, from time to time, they have to go to space. The film has won the Special Jury Prize at the 2019 San Sebastian Festival.

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Availability checked on 8 November 2026.

The essentials

Runtime
107 min1 hour and 47 minutes
Budget
$6.5mCanal+
Box office
£30,051in UK
How long is Proxima?
1 hour and 47 minutes (107 minutes).
Who directed Proxima?
Alice Winocour.
Who is in Proxima?
It stars Eva Green, Zélie Boulant, Matt Dillon and Lars Eidinger.
Where can I watch Proxima?
In the UK it is available to rent on Apple TV and Prime Video.
How much did Proxima make?
It took £30,051 in UK. It cost $6.5 million.
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Director
Alice Winocour
Producers
Ardavan Safaee

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Reviews

All 4 reviews
5.6 2 votes

What the critics say average 8.0 from 4 outlets

  • 9.0 CinemaníaAndrea G. Bermejo Alice Winocour's film is a delicate and accurate portrait of mother-child love, both mysterious and expansive as the universe. Read
  • 8.0 ABCOti Rodríguez Marchante The place from which you look is completely feminine, and the film provides a lot of information about it, both physical and psychological requirements. Read
  • 8.0 El PaísElsa Fernández-Campos Without unnecessary underlining, with an austere and concise approach, a delicate Ry?ichi Sakamoto soundtrack and a realistic setting, the film is the portrait of a modern heroine Read

Box office

Weekend by weekend
  • Budget $6.5m
  • UK £30,051

Soundtrack

All 3 songs
  1. You're HighAgar Agar Spotify
  2. Danse Macabre, Op. 40Malmö Symfoniorkester, conducted by, Marc Soustrot Spotify
  3. UnglaublichJacqueline Hopkins, Marc Ferrari, Matt Hirt

Trivia

  • To the space

    Some scenes were shot at a real space training center, European Astronaut Centre, near Cologne, Germany.

  • Without Diane Kruger

    Diane Kruger expressed interest in playing the female lead during an interview with director Alice Winocour at AOL BUILD Series on August 9, 2016. However, Winocour turned Kruger down and cast Eva Green instead.

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