Toronto Film Review: Natalie Portman in ‘Lucy in the Sky’

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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 h…

— a gifted visual storyteller who triple-knots his own shoelaces here, stumbling over cumbersome metaphors and high-concept solutions to straightforward dramatic problems when he should have just entrusted his leading lady to carry the narrative.

Surely space must have had a profound impact on Nowak — whom we’ll refer to as Lucy going forward, since the film strays pretty far from the truth in its exploration of her psychology.

It’s the kind of observation the film treats as if you had to be there — like blasting past the atmosphere is the only way to lose perspective on one’s terrestrial concerns. Except that there are a thousand ways that happens to people every day: a near-death experience, falling in love, being treated as a celebrity.

 

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