ksf-2 Review of Planetarium

Planetarium (2016)

spoilers.. takes a LONG time to get where its going

[5/10 · 23 November 2020]

There's a good story in here, but it never really comes to fruition. SPOILERS ** we meet the very american sisters, who host seances for a living, and the younger, immature sister seems to really be able to see spirits trying to communicate. we meet a single man of means, who not only hires them, but invites them into his house. he's the director at a film company, who wants to film a personal seance, but the board does NOT approve! each of the main characters have their psychological issues, but we kind of breeze past them a little too quickly. the script is quite sparse, and for the longest time, we are left guessing as to what's going on, and why the characters do what they do. and the story is bookended by the worldly cosmos-connection (thus the title)... at the beginning and again at the end, we're staring into the sky, looking at shooting stars, but what we see and hear doesn't really have anything to do with the story. was awkward. the older sister gets to have a short-lived romance, but we're not really sure why it ends so abruptly. the script needed cleaning up. when the film director in the story gets canned, he is immediately shipped back to Poland... and the director of Planetarium (Rebecca Zlotowski) has a last name which appears to have origins in Poland; makes one wonder if this story is partially based on members of her own family? unknown. takes place JUST right around WWII, when it was NOT a good time to be in Poland. so many questions and issues are brought up, and never get answered. it's ok. i actually kind of liked the ethereal, light, random style of the story, but they leave so many things un-answered. Zlotowski had been making films for about ten years by this time.