Alice Winocour
Space movies have repeatedly provided the most intense and highstakes examples of works in which the wife stays home worrying about her husband while he is busy worrying about survival. But in Alice Winocour’s Proxima, a woman astronaut played by Eva Green refuses to take on the cruel and macho stance of countless cinematic dads who sternly leave their families behind, and instead tries to find a way of both fulfilling her dreams and raising her daughter with love.
Winocour: When I make a film, I always need to project, was set in another time period. was set in the world of soldiers. Here, what I wanted to talk about was the mother-daughter relationship, which is something that is very close to me, so I needed the story to take place in a very faraway world.
