A for Andromeda

A for Andromeda

2006 · 86 min · EN · 4.7 (26 votes)
Dir. John Strickland · Starring Tom Hardy, Charlie Cox, Kelly Reilly, Jane Asher, David Haig, Colin Stinton · Music Nina Humphreys
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In the Yorkshire Dales, a mysterious signal from space arrives with instructions to build a powerful super-computer. Once completed, the device's motives provokes discourse between scientists John Fleming and Madeleine Dawnay as further instructions are to create a living organism, which Dawnay develops. The entity compels lab assistant Christine to commit suicide, and, upon manifestation, adopts her form, now known as Andromeda.

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A slow-burn exploration of humanity's place in the cosmos. It feels like a thoughtful, slightly unnerving thought experiment, wrapped in the quiet dread of a potential alien invasion. The atmosphere is thick with scientific wonder and creeping paranoia.

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