Spaceship

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Movie Info

Lucidia is a teenage cyber-goth whose mother died mysteriously seven years ago in the family swimming pool. Her father Gabriel is an archaeologist who can't move on. When Lucidia disappears in an apparent alien abduction, Gabriel is forced to confront her strange outsider friends and meets Tegan, a girl obsessed with unicorns and black holes. Emotional and audacious, the story is told from multiple points of view in an intriguing ride through a constellation of characters who are pulled together by teenage gravity, surrounded by adults who also feel the same irresistible pull as they orbit their own elusive identities, all looking for a universe to call their own.

Rating:

NR
Genre:

Drama
Directed By:

Alex Taylor (XI)
Written By:

Alex Taylor (XI)
Runtime:

86 minutes
Studio:

BBC Films

Cast

Alexa Davies

Antti Reini

Steven Elder

Harry Jarvis

Tallulah Haddon

Critic Reviews for Spaceship

All Critics (19) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (10) | Rotten (9)

Spaceship is laden thick with production design. Locations speak to the film's banal residential setting, while the costumes, hair and make-up veritably bellow, "Yes, we are all individuals!"

May 19, 2017 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…

Aimee Knight
Little White Lies
Top Critic
Director Alex Taylor has established himself as a talent with his short films and I wanted to like this, but it feels humourless and smug.

May 18, 2017 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…

Peter Bradshaw
Guardian
Top Critic
This micro-budget British indie feels like an unintentional parody of experimental cinema.

May 15, 2017 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Tom Huddleston
Time Out
Top Critic
It might have worked as a collection of DayGlo YouTube music videos, but the story of an alien abduction -- or perhaps just an Ecstasy-fuelled fantasy -- turns into self-indulgent ennui.

May 12, 2017 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…

Kate Muir
Times (UK)
Top Critic
Written and directed by Taylor, it may be a difficult story structure for some to follow but once you open your mind to all the possibilities out there, you can quickly find yourself immersed into this otherworldly story.

February 4, 2020 | Full Review…

Katie Hogan
VultureHound
The effect is dreamlike, trippy, a saturation of colour and music, not always explained but eventually with an emotional and joyful resolution.

November 3, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Alexa Dalby
Dog and Wolf
Taylor seems bored by his own story and quickly introduces secondary and tertiary characters of diminishing importance to jolt a line that was doing just fine on its own.

October 16, 2018 | Rating: 4/10 | Full Review…

Derek Deskins
Next Projection
Spaceship could have been so much more exciting and remarkable if it had only dropped its need to be complex and deep.

August 24, 2018 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…

Stephanie Watts
One Room With A View
There is imagination and poetry all its own making in Spaceship.

December 29, 2017 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Martyn Conterio
CineVue
Alex Taylor's odd, dreamy film slowly comes into its own, due in large part to the director and writer's tonal consistency and an evocative world that's cunningly deceptive in the way it toes the tightrope strung between reality and fantasy.

November 21, 2017 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…

Randall Colburn
Consequence of Sound
The performances are thrillingly uninhibited; don't be surprised if the careers of several future stars are traced back to this film.

May 25, 2017 | Full Review…

Ryan Gilbey
New Statesman
I don't see real teens buying this.

May 21, 2017 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Simran Hans
Observer (UK)