At times it plays like a high-tech version of shipwreck or wilderness survival story that happens to take place among the stars, and that would fit nicely on a double-bill alongside " Deliverance," " 127 Hours," " Cast Away," " Rescue Dawn" or the upcoming " All Is Lost." For all its stunning exteriors, it's really concerned with emotional interiors, and it goes about exploring them with simplicity and directness, letting the actors's faces and voices carry the burden of meaning. Watching Sandra Bullock and George Clooney's spacefarers go about their business, you may feel-for the first time since " The Right Stuff," perhaps-that a Hollywood blockbuster grasps the essence of a job that many can't imagine without feeling dizzy. The panoramas of astronauts tumbling against starfields and floating through space stations are both informative and lovely.īut the most surprising and impressive thing about "Gravity" isn't its scale, its suspense, or its sense of wonder it's that, in its heart, it is not primarily a film about astronauts, or space, or even a specific catastrophe. Alfonso Cuarón's "Gravity," about astronauts coping with disaster, is a huge and technically dazzling film.
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