My expectations weren’t met by this unexciting, bleak film presented in a documentary fashion, concerning "Sarah" (played by Eva Green), who harbored a lifelong ambition of traveling into space. Upon receiving the chance, she encounters the demanding aspects of training, isolation, and confinement, experiences that affect her more profoundly than expected—leading to intense longing for her young daughter, Zélie Boula…

The film 'Proxima' avoids overt visual style, opting instead for a naturalistic feel reminiscent of a documentary—a detail underscored by the inclusion of actual photographs of female astronauts during the closing credits. This understated quality actually strengthens the sense of closeness in this story centered on a driven woman struggling with the emotional toll of potentially abandoning her young child.

**_An emotive family drama that will disappoint those hoping for sci-fi spectacle_** > Anyone who sits on top of the largest hydrogen-oxygen fuelled system in the world, knowing they're going to light the bottom, and doesn't get a little worried, does not fully understand the situation. - Cpt. John Young (commander of the _Columbia_ for STS-1 in 1981, the inaugural spaceflight of NASA's Space Shuttle program) …