A mindbending darling of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Another Earth arrives in theaters this week on a wave of laurelled adulation for its contributions to the cinema of science. And it’s true — there is a lot of science to be parsed and digested, to say nothing of the It-Girl phenomenon of leading lady/co-writer Brit Marling. That’s all fine and good, except that there’s not quite enough art.
Another Earth is ultimately just another less-accomplished entry in the booming cinema of catharsis, your average gorgeous-teen-astrophysicist-meets-schlubby-bereft-composer-whose-family-she-wiped-out-in-a-drunk-driving-accident-on-the-night-they-discovered-another-planet tale. Seriously. The film’s Earth 2 is exactly what it sounds like, hovering there in the wintry horizon over Connecticut when comely manslaughterer Rhoda (Marling) is released from a four-year prison stint. She was supposed to have done that time at MIT. Now, though, she struggles to reassimilate into both a family and a society that seem to have passed her by, relocating a handful of celestial swag from her astronomy-drenched girlhood bedroom to an austere attic and taking a job as a high school custodian.
Rhoda tells her re-entry counselor that she doesn’t want to be around too many people, and director/co-writer Mike Cahill complies as well, with disembodied voices and sounds from the cosmos that has abandoned her. Only one particular man’s attention appeals to Rhoda: that of John Burroughs (played by William Mapother), a reclusive former composer and Yale professor who lost his pregnant wife and toddler son to Rhoda’s drunken, stargazing malfeasance. She arrives on his doorstep offering a free housecleaning, to which he reluctantly submits. One session begets another, and…
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