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| Eva Green | ... | Sarah Loreau | |
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Zélie Boulant | ... | Stella Akerman Loreau |
| Matt Dillon | ... | Mike Shannon | |
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Aleksey Fateev | ... | Anton Ocheivsky |
| Lars Eidinger | ... | Thomas Akerman | |
| Sandra Hüller | ... | Wendy Hauer | |
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Trond-Erik Vassal | ... | Jurgen |
| Nancy Tate | ... | Naomi Shannon | |
| Grégoire Colin | ... | Sarah's Doctor | |
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Igor Filippov | ... | Dima |
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Svetlana Nekhoroshikh | ... | Vera |
| Anna Sherbinina | ... | Russian Journalist | |
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Vitaly Jay | ... | Star City Member |
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Lionel Ferra | ... | Exoskeleton Coach |
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Manuela Aguzzi | ... | Exoskeleton Coach |
Sarah is a French astronaut training at the European Space Agency in Cologne. She is the only woman in the arduous program. She lives alone with Stella, her eight-year-old daughter. Sarah feels guilty that she cannot spend more time with her child. Her love is overpowering, unsettling. When Sarah is chosen to join the crew of a year-long space mission called Proxima, it creates chaos in the mother-daughter relationship.
Proxima is a very sincere, intimate and devoid of pathos cinema. This is the psychological portrait of a woman devoted to her dream of flying into space. When the main character approaches her goal, she begins to understand how difficult it will be to leave the planet. The picture is more like a documentary than a science fiction story. Great Eva Green and good pictures of the Bajkonur spaceport deserve praise.