Remember Lisa Marie Nowak? She’s the love-crazed astronaut who, in 2007, drove from Texas to Florida armed with a Bb gun, plastic gloves, a steel mallet, a can of pepper spray, and six feet of rubber tubing to confront another female astronaut, her rival in a romantic triangle. While nobody was harmed in what the police assessed as an attempted kidnapping, what made the story a late-night comic’s punchline was the (disputed) tidbit that Ms. Nowak was wearing a Nasa-issued diaper on her road trip of fury to avoid potty breaks. The new film Lucy In The Sky starring Natalie Portman as Nowak (her name changed to Lucy Cola) takes some major liberties with the story, omitting the memorable detail about the diaper. Nowak’s story was the kind of bizarre tabloid headline ripe for juicy satire like I, Tonya, a fascinating subject and a deliciously strange story...
- 10/10/2019
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Going into outer space literally changes a person. Your muscles atrophy. Your bones deteriorate. One Nasa study even found that prolonged time in the cosmos can alter the telomeres at the end of your DNA. Some of these effects are temporary, while others are obviously more permanent. Those of the mental variety tend to fall into the latter category. It’s a tricky thing to measure, but your mind cannot be un-blown; looking down at the Earth like it’s a marble in your hand isn’t a perspective people lose. It’s hard to imagine how differently someone might see the world after they’ve looked at it from a god’s-eye view — how someone could float amongst the stars one day, and eat dinner at Applebee’s the next. Noah Hawley’s “Lucy in the Sky” spends two full hours trying to do just that, and it understandably comes up short.
- 9/12/2019
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Movies set in the real world and based on real events should never rely solely on the drama of those facts to derive their primary tension. In the last few days anyway, Bad Education has been shown how a film can grows out of its scarcely believable reality, while Radioactive shrinks under the weight of its famous subject.
Unfortunately Lucy in the Sky is a member of that second group, although it’s never exactly clear quite what the story it’s trying to tell is. Natalie Portman leads as star astronaut (Star astronaut? That’s a better joke than any in the film) Lucy Cola, a reserved Southern woman who became a leading face during the years of the Shuttle program before becoming famous for something quite different. Her husband Drew (Dan Stevens), a character with less intrigue than Ned Flanders despite an identical accent and moustache, also works...
Unfortunately Lucy in the Sky is a member of that second group, although it’s never exactly clear quite what the story it’s trying to tell is. Natalie Portman leads as star astronaut (Star astronaut? That’s a better joke than any in the film) Lucy Cola, a reserved Southern woman who became a leading face during the years of the Shuttle program before becoming famous for something quite different. Her husband Drew (Dan Stevens), a character with less intrigue than Ned Flanders despite an identical accent and moustache, also works...
- 9/12/2019
- by Adam Solomons
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The term “space case” may as well have been invented for Lucy Cola, a fictional astronaut loosely inspired by Lisa Nowak, who famously (if not entirely factually) donned adult diapers and powered her way cross-country to confront a romantic rival at the Orlando airport, where she was arrested for what amounted to attempted kidnapping and battery. When the story broke — this was a dozen years back, in 2007 — news outlets and tabloids alike treated it as a kind of pathetic “Fatal Attraction” scenario, in which a jealous Nasa engineer couldn’t handle being dumped by one of her colleagues and went berserk.
Now, Natalie Portman offers an alternate interpretation. In its oddly understanding and stylistically ambitious way, “Lucy in the Sky” suggests that maybe outer space was to blame for Nowak’s actions. You see, as an astronaut, Nowak belonged to a very small club of super-achievers who have actually touched the heavens,...
Now, Natalie Portman offers an alternate interpretation. In its oddly understanding and stylistically ambitious way, “Lucy in the Sky” suggests that maybe outer space was to blame for Nowak’s actions. You see, as an astronaut, Nowak belonged to a very small club of super-achievers who have actually touched the heavens,...
- 9/12/2019
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Already known as a TV show creator who can run multiple writers’ rooms in the same building in a given season, somewhere along the way Fargo Primetime Emmy winner Noah Hawley decided to tackle his feature directorial debut, the female astronaut pic Lucy in the Sky ne Pale Blue Dot, which makes it world premiere tomorrow night at Tiff.
“It’s all a blur, but I went from Fargo season 3 to Legion season 2 and then we made the movie last summer,” says the multi-tasker who is about to go into production on season 4 of Fargo next month starring Chris Rock, in a story that is set in 1950 Kansas City, 29 years before season 2.
Lucy in the Sky tells the story of Lucy Cola, a type A, high-achieving astronaut, who after returning to Earth, feels a disconnect on terra firma, specifically her marriage. She ultimately strays to a fellow astronaut, Mark Goodwin (Jon Hamm) who,...
“It’s all a blur, but I went from Fargo season 3 to Legion season 2 and then we made the movie last summer,” says the multi-tasker who is about to go into production on season 4 of Fargo next month starring Chris Rock, in a story that is set in 1950 Kansas City, 29 years before season 2.
Lucy in the Sky tells the story of Lucy Cola, a type A, high-achieving astronaut, who after returning to Earth, feels a disconnect on terra firma, specifically her marriage. She ultimately strays to a fellow astronaut, Mark Goodwin (Jon Hamm) who,...
- 9/10/2019
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
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