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Meanwhile on Earth

Meanwhile on Earth

6,2 /10 (62 Votes)
2024 FR 87 min

Overview

Siblings Elsa and Franck used to be close, but everything changed when Franck’s space mission went awry. Three years have passed since his mysterious disappearance, and 23-year-old Elsa is having trouble moving on with her life. One day, an unidentified life form makes contact, offering to bring her big brother back to Earth. But there's a price to pay...

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Release date

03/07/2024

Votes

62

Popularity

0.8

Status

Released

Original title

Pendant ce temps sur Terre

Language

FR

Runtime

87 min

Revenue

$128,746

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Brent Marchant

2025-02-06

⭐ 5

It’s regrettable when a filmmaker’s reach exceeds his or her grasp. Such is the case, unfortunately, in writer-director Jérémy Clapin’s second feature outing, an ambitious but failed attempt at making a profound statement about the pain of loss and efforts to overcome it when an opportunity presents itself. The film follows the mysterious disappearance of astronaut Franck Martens (Sébastien Pouderoux) while on a seemingly routine space mission, leaving behind his grieving family, most notably his younger sister, Elsa (Megan Northam). She misses her brother terribly but is astounded one evening…

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