LucyInTheSky review: Even when we don’t know what the hell is going on in Noah Hawley’s astronaut epic, Natalie Portman is a blast
She’s fahne. Photo: Fox Searchlight Pictures Natalie Portman does the crash-and-burn thing yet again in Lucy in the Sky, which was inspired by the astronaut Lisa Nowak’s fabled drive from Houston to Orlando to assault and/or kidnap her astronaut lover and/or her astronaut lover’s astronaut lover. It’s confusing because some of the facts are the same but many of them aren’t, so life and art blur. The principal innovation by the director, Noah Hawley, and the writers, Brian C.
Did I mention the flashbacks? Hawley, having begun in TV’s Legion to delineate an arty middle ground between schizophrenia and extrasensory perception, takes his scrambled syntax to the next level. He even plays with the dimensions of the screen, skipping from boxy to visor slit to full frame and back. Jump cuts are the norm, not the exception, and now and then the image blurs into the muzzy-abstract. Countdowns recur on the soundtrack. I’m of two minds about all this capital-A Art.
Portman, as we’ve seen in Black Swan and Vox Lux and Annihilation, seems to gravitate toward losing her mind onscreen, though she always does so in the context of her characters’ physical discipline.
Portman’s determination extends to her accent, which takes getting used to — though not as much as in Jackie. Her southern drawl falls somewhere between Holly Hunter and Elly May Clampett, and in a peculiar way, its unnaturalness works for the performance. Inquiring after Lucy’s mental health, a psychiatrist cites the astronaut Michael Collins, who flew a space capsule while his two colleagues walked on the moon and wrote, “I am truly alone.” Did Lucy feel that corrosive isolation? “Ah’m fahn.
Jon Hamm plays her astronaut seducer as a callow lush, which means we never fully relate to Lucy’s growing obsession. Lucy seems stuck on him not just because he’s handsome but because he, too, has been to space, and their lovemaking is connected to Lucy floating above the Earth. What she’s experiencing is not sexual ecstasy: It’s a heavenly homecoming.
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