Jean-Luc Godard interview. Angrier. Deadlier. Sexier. Another Earth – review. A strange, gloomy, moderately acted damp squib of a movie.
It's a low-key high-concept indie sci-fi – a little like Lars von Trier's Melancholia but without the master's twinkly eyed chutzpah. First-time feature director Mike Cahill has undoubtedly got hold of a reasonable idea to start off with. Right out of the blue, one day, a new planet appears really close to Earth. It looks exactly like Earth: same-shaped continents and oceans, and when our scientists make contact, it becomes worryingly apparent there is an exact double of everyone down here, up there, on the planet they're calling "Earth 2". (But as someone points out, that's not what they call themselves; they call us "Earth 2".)