Gravity (2013)

title: Gravity
directed by: Alfonso Cuarón
written by: Alfonso Cuarón & Jonás Cuarón
photography by: Emmanuel Lubezki
music by: Steven Price
edited by: Alfonso Cuarón & Mark Sanger
cast: Sandra Bullock, George Clooney
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Gravity is an absolutely wonderful cinematographic experience. Technically it could rival Kubrick's 2001. The photography and music are just perfect and the 3D is really a part of the movie, not a complement. We had never been so close to actually being in space. 

But what's the plot about? We could describe it as a Apollo XIII meets 127 hours, being Gravity more metaphisical than both of them, which is really not surprising coming from Alfonso Cuarón, the mexican director of Children of Men. The story is about a crew of astronauts from NASA that face a rain of space garbage that leaves them almost helpless in open space.

Personally, I am not a fan of movies with a limited number of characters (that meaning one or two characters in the whole movie), although, of course, there are exceptions (like 1972's Sleuth), so I was a little skeptical about the development of the plot in Gravity. Surely it was an important factor to explain why I wasn't really moved by Bullock's performance, but I enjoyed the movie anyway.

Gravity is a must-see movie, an experience, that even if you don't find cinematographically fulfilling, you will not regret, because, as we said, technically there's nothing that can be criticized in it, and specially because it is, probably, the best spatial experience ever felt in cinema.