Suspense is always a thrill for me. While watching this film, I waited forthe suspense "just around the corner" or "any minute now." I guess I wasin suspense while waiting for the suspense. Cunning Rand Ravich, the writerand director, held me in suspense. Don't get me wrong. I'm glad I saw thismovie. The story begins with a handsome astronaut, Spencer Armacost(Johnny Depp) and his fellow astronaut, Alex Streck (Nick Cassavetes), whoare coming home to earth from a trip in space. The impressivecinematography captured the feeling of another world. Rand Ravich, thewriter and director of "The Astronaut's Wife," knows his film history. AsSpencer's wife, Jillian Armacost (Charlize Theron) watches a huge screenwhere her husband is landing, which reminded me of the classic movie,"North by Northwest." Sophisticated Cary Grant stood in the middle ofnowhere on a flat open surface in complete silence and suddenly -- well,it's suspenseful and probably produced before a lot of the readers wereborn.
When Spencer and Jillian are together again, it's strained and, yet,they're still deeply in love, married, and can read each other's thoughts.There are glances across crowded rooms where they look at each other and awordless communication seems to happen. Both actors handle their parts wellthrough these silences. By the way, the astronaut's wife, JillianArmacost, is stunning and coiffed in the exact same hairstyle as Mia Farrowin "Rosemary's Baby," another classic in my view. I think that is alsointeresting to note while you're watching the film.
At a reunion party, the two astronauts are praised with cheers and hurrahsall around, but the other astronaut, Alex Streck, dies. The doctors explainhis death, but no one talks about what happened up there in outer space fortwo minutes when everything went dark. More happenings occur and thenSpencer leaves the space program and takes an executive job in New Yorkwith, of course, his lovely wife following him. The film is shot at anglesreminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock and the futuristic look fits sciencefiction. There is the innuendo of a psychological thriller. Suffice it tosay, I didn't even notice when I had finished my popcorn.
Judith Fox
Astronaut's Wife, The
Suspense is always a thrill for me. While watching this film, I waited forthe suspense "just around the corner" or "any minute now." I guess I wasin suspense while waiting for the suspense. Cunning Rand Ravich, the writerand director, held me in suspense. Don't get me wrong. I'm glad I saw thismovie. The story begins with a handsome astronaut, Spencer Armacost(Johnny Depp) and his fellow astronaut, Alex Streck (Nick Cassavetes), whoare coming home to earth from a trip in space. The impressivecinematography captured the feeling of another world. Rand Ravich, thewriter and director of "The Astronaut's Wife," knows his film history. AsSpencer's wife, Jillian Armacost (Charlize Theron) watches a huge screenwhere her husband is landing, which reminded me of the classic movie,"North by Northwest." Sophisticated Cary Grant stood in the middle ofnowhere on a flat open surface in complete silence and suddenly -- well,it's suspenseful and probably produced before a lot of the readers wereborn.
When Spencer and Jillian are together again, it's strained and, yet,they're still deeply in love, married, and can read each other's thoughts.There are glances across crowded rooms where they look at each other and awordless communication seems to happen. Both actors handle their parts wellthrough these silences. By the way, the astronaut's wife, JillianArmacost, is stunning and coiffed in the exact same hairstyle as Mia Farrowin "Rosemary's Baby," another classic in my view. I think that is alsointeresting to note while you're watching the film.
At a reunion party, the two astronauts are praised with cheers and hurrahsall around, but the other astronaut, Alex Streck, dies. The doctors explainhis death, but no one talks about what happened up there in outer space fortwo minutes when everything went dark. More happenings occur and thenSpencer leaves the space program and takes an executive job in New Yorkwith, of course, his lovely wife following him. The film is shot at anglesreminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock and the futuristic look fits sciencefiction. There is the innuendo of a psychological thriller. Suffice it tosay, I didn't even notice when I had finished my popcorn.
