This is a difficult film to describe without giving too much away as the main twist comes relatively early on; however I will try.
As this Spanish sci-fi film opens we are told that that Helena is alone aboard a spaceship heading to the Planet Celeste. Her parents had been traveling with her but, following a malfunction, left her so she could survive to a point where the ship could rendezvous with an engineer at a space station before continuing to her destination. The engineer, Alex, arrives and fixes the problem. She sleeps with him, knowing she won't see another person for twenty years. Shortly afterwards she is surprised when Alex returns... what he shows her will turn her existence upside down as well as put them both in danger.
I didn't know what to expect from this film; as I started watching all I knew was that it was in Spanish and was about a woman alone in space who meets a male engineer who changes her life. Knowing so little added a lot to my enjoyment of the film. The twist came as a genuine surprise; and, while nothing that followed had quite the same impact, the story kept me gripped till the end. The romantic elements felt a little forced; as if they were there to explain Alex telling Helena what he does... it might have been better had the early section of the film had been expanded to give them time to get genuinely close rather than the apparent one night stand. The cast is decent enough; most obviously Clara Lago and Álex González as Helena and Alex respectively. Overall I thought this was a fun little sci-fi movie; worth a watch if you are a fan of the genre.
These comments are based on watching the film in Spanish with English subtitles.
As this Spanish sci-fi film opens we are told that that Helena is alone aboard a spaceship heading to the Planet Celeste. Her parents had been traveling with her but, following a malfunction, left her so she could survive to a point where the ship could rendezvous with an engineer at a space station before continuing to her destination. The engineer, Alex, arrives and fixes the problem. She sleeps with him, knowing she won't see another person for twenty years. Shortly afterwards she is surprised when Alex returns... what he shows her will turn her existence upside down as well as put them both in danger.
I didn't know what to expect from this film; as I started watching all I knew was that it was in Spanish and was about a woman alone in space who meets a male engineer who changes her life. Knowing so little added a lot to my enjoyment of the film. The twist came as a genuine surprise; and, while nothing that followed had quite the same impact, the story kept me gripped till the end. The romantic elements felt a little forced; as if they were there to explain Alex telling Helena what he does... it might have been better had the early section of the film had been expanded to give them time to get genuinely close rather than the apparent one night stand. The cast is decent enough; most obviously Clara Lago and Álex González as Helena and Alex respectively. Overall I thought this was a fun little sci-fi movie; worth a watch if you are a fan of the genre.
These comments are based on watching the film in Spanish with English subtitles.