A mesmerising tale of intergalactic loneliness, self-inquiry, and our innate hunger for life starring Sam Rockwell.

It's the near future. Corporate engineer Sam Bell (Rockwell) is on the final stretch of a three-year job, manning a space station on the far side of the Moon that harvests energy for a depleted Earth. He's been alone all that time, and his sole company the station's computer Gerty.

But after a routine repair goes horribly awry, Sam begins to deteriorate as he suspects that things, and even he, are not what they seem.

A tremendous debut from Duncan Jones (sci-fi might just be in his DNA - he is, after all, the son of Ziggy Stardust himself, David Bowie), this is an intelligent tale that recalls the very best of the genre's 70s heyday while being a wholly original, character-driven story.

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