Lucy in the Sky

Empêtrée dans des changements de format d'image multiples et des décadrages inutiles, la réalisation tape-à-l'oeil de Noah Hawley (créateur et auteur des séries Legion et Fargo) n'arrange rien.

L'ensemble est appuyé de quelques effets spéciaux un peu vieillots et de changements de cadrage très soudains, mais plutôt sympathiques.

Natalie Portman and director Noah Hawley try to humanize the high-profile case of disgraced astronaut Lisa Nowak, revealing the enormous pressures on women in a male-dominated field.

Not even the Oscar-winning 'Jackie' star can get this story of a jealous, possibly unstable astronaut to achieve lift-off.

Lucy in the Sky features one of Portman's more histrionic performances, one in which she sports a pretty pronounced Southern accent.

But even when we don't know what the hell Lucy is doing, Portman makes her certainty a blast.

Director Noah Hawley and his all-male screenwriting team can't seem to tether a complicated female character.

There's a point at which this joke stops being funny and turns sad, and it's very early in its over two hours runtime.

It's too bad that Hawley's debut has gone on to become so reviled here at TIFF (...).