Glasgow Film Festival review: Proxima

“There’s no such thing as the perfect astronaut, just like there’s no such thing as the perfect mother.,” a character tells Eva Green’s space-bound protagonist in Proxima. Receiving its UK premiere at this year’s Glasgow Film Festival, Alice Winocour’s meditation on motherhood and space travel adds an intriguing dimension to the likes of First Man, Ad Astra, Gravity and Interstellar by keeping its focus on a parent preparing to separate from their child rather than coming to terms with those feelings of loss amid the celestial silence of the cosmos.