El astronauta

I liked the book, but not wholeheartedly, but what bothered me about it is not in the film. It just focuses on the essentials, and that benefited Spaceman tremendously. A melancholy meditation on solitude, silence and separation that is definitely not for everyone, but it will reward those viewers who get the message all the more. Adam Sandler is once again perfect, and so is Hanus voiced by Paul Dano. It's a pity we can't make a film like this ourselves. (02.03.2024)

Yes, Spaceman is slow, deliberate and meditative in the manner of art film, but it is also flat, full of therapeutic and visual clichés, Paul Dano’s sleepy recitations and the marginal acting of Adam Sandler, whose sadness and bags under his eyes I don’t believe for a moment. I can say the same about the directing of Johan Renck, who this time seems more like Stakka Bo pretending to be an artsy filmmaker. The film wants to be a melancholic meditation on closeness and distance, on abandonment, a modern-day Odysseus in space. However, it much more gives the impression of being the longest and most annoying commercial for a fictional Czech telephone company that you can rely on. My irritation with this film grew with every other scene in which I sensed the potential for a melancholic psychological sci-fi flick. And what did I get instead? A dull bit of would-be art that doesn’t work. In space, everyone hears your banality. (05.03.2024)

I hope I don't start having nightmares about Hanus now! I'm going to be generous in my rating, because for a Czech film it's not bad, but for a foreign one it has more crap than that messed up space loo. Adam Sandler is not a skinny little man and the final journey to the cloud from the beginning of the universe looks cheap, to put it politely. That wouldn't matter if his relationship with Lenka was worth something and didn't consist of trite, almost austere dialogue exchanges straight out of an old movie. The design and interiors of the ship match this. The creators of Chernobyl do not put themselves to shame. The music is nice, Sandler is mesmerizing. (01.03.2024)