Venice Film Review: Brad Pitt in ‘Ad Astra’

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In the opening sequence of “Ad Astra,” Roy McBride (Brad Pitt), a veteran U.S. astronaut, is doing what he does at the top of a space antenna, an elaborate piece of technological scaffo…

), who 30 years before led Earth’s first voyage into deep space on a mission known as the Lima Project. Sixteen years into the mission, the ship, along with everyone on it, disappeared; Clifford has never been heard from since. But the power surge that disabled the space antenna was part of a larger destructive surge that’s now threatening the stability of the solar system. And guess what? The surge is emanating from the region around Neptune.

Roy’s journey to Neptune involves stopping at a series of manned way stations — first on the moon, then Mars — that echo the expository sections of “2001: A Space Odyssey.” Fifty years after the 1969 moon landing, Gray’s vision of human space exploration is defiantly unromantic; the most memorable shot of the moon colony reveals that there’s a Subway there — not an underground travel system, but the sandwich chain.

 

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If a film's theme isn't gender politics, race relations, or class inequality, it'll be promptly dismissed. The utter state of film criticism nowadays.

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