Natalie Portman stars in a story inspired by the real-life romantic travails of astronaut Lisa Nowak

Inspired by the tabloid tale of Lisa Nowak, an American astronaut who became obsessed with a fellow astronaut with whom she was having an affair, Lucy In The Sky has ambitious visual flourishes, a bold performance from Natalie Portman and not nearly enough insights into the peculiarities of human behaviour.

For all this movie’s stylistic curlicues, it fails to present a convincing psychological portrait of an accomplished, driven woman who suddenly, seemingly inexplicably, throws away her life in pursuit of a fleeting dalliance...

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