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Helen Tope reviews First Man, showing at Plymouth Arts Centre until this Thursday (tickets available here).
The challenge in making a film about space travel is how to make it human. Astonishing technical feats; pilots at the peak of mental and physical perfection – excellence may be laudable, but it’s not always watchable.
Director Damien Chazelle squares up to this challenge in First Man; a film that gets to the heart of the Space Race. Here we find not just brilliance, but courage and fallibility. It is a beautifully balanced piece of work, detailing just what it took to put Man ... Continue Reading