The European space dream as an alternative in Alice Winocour's Proxima (2019)
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https://doi.org/10.24310/Fotocinema.2020.vi21.10002Keywords:
European dream, Space exploration cinema, Woman astronaut, Motherhood, Alice Winocour, Film imaginariesAbstract
The premiere of the film Proxima in 2019 by French filmmaker Alice Winocour established a milestone in the space travel genre by being the first featuring a European woman astronaut as the main protagonist, a family mother whose dream of joining a mission on the International Space Station come true. Conflicts with her crewmates —a Roscosmos cosmonaut and a NASA astronaut— lead to a clash of multiple world views that encompass space, geopolitics and gender roles. This article aims to analyze this socionarrative frame in Winocour's film, by looking at the European space dream as both a reference and an alternative ethos to the American dream and the Russian/Soviet dream.
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