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"Director: Alfonso Cuar\u00F3n; Screenwriters: Alfonso Cuar\u00F3n, Jon\u00E1s Cuar\u00F3n; Starring: Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Ed Harris; Running time: 91 mins; Certificate: 12A  Hearts will race and fingers will dig into armrests throughout Alfonso Cuar\u00F3n&amp;#039;s Gravity, a space-disaster movie that&amp;#039;s as emotionally piercing as it is technically breathtaking. The setup is simple: Sandra Bullock and George Clooney play Ryan Stone and Matt Kowalski, astronauts on a mission to repair the Hubble Telescope. It&amp;#039;s the final spacewalk for charismatic raconteur Kowalski, whose outgoing personality lies in stark contrast to Stone&amp;#039;s nervy and subdued nuts and bolts engineer. Cuar\u00F3n sets his film in motion with a stunning 12-minute unbroken take that begins with the shuttle Explorer moving across the curvature of the Earth and ends with Stone tumbling off into the void. Orbiting debris kicks off a chain reaction that untethers Stone from Kowalski and severs communication with Mission Control. Houston, Sandra Bullock has a problem! Not since Speed&amp;#039;s frantic bus ride through LA have we seen this A-list leading lady under so much physical and psychological duress.  Gravity is about Stone&amp;#039;s desperate fight for survival as she navigates through abandoned space stations, pilots escape modules and battles rapidly-depleting oxygen reserves. It&amp;#039;s a gutsy, career-best performance from Bullock, who finds herself onscreen for nearly every second of the brisk 91-minute running time. Cuar\u00F3n&amp;#039;s camera elegantly weaves and loops through zero gravity, sometimes pushing through Stone&amp;#039;s helmet and resting this close to her panic-stricken face.  Right across the board this film is masterfully made, from Cuar\u00F3n&amp;#039;s authoritative directorial eye to eerie and urgent music that&amp;#039;s a perfect marriage of Steven Price score and ambitious sound design. Even the 3D is fantastic - so effective in fact that this reviewer ducked out of the way as debris hurtled through space. How many movies have effectively utilised 3D since its 21st-century resurgence? Avatar, How to Train Your Dragon, Hugo and Life of Pi maybe? Now you can add Gravity to that list. For all the film&amp;#039;s cutting edge technical mastery and incredible spectacle, its story is ultimately one of isolation and the need for human connection. As the tagline for Alien reminds us, in space nobody can hear you scream, and for Stone - stranded more than 500 km above Earth - this causes her to confront buried trauma from her past and find the inner strength to reinforce her bid for survival. Gravity would sit nicely in a double-bill with Danny Boyle&amp;#039;s criminally underrated 127 Hours, a movie that called back to the &amp;quot;Choose Life&amp;quot; monologue in the director&amp;#039;s earlier hit Trainspotting. It&amp;#039;s a mantra that applies to James Franco&amp;#039;s Aron Ralston and Stone, who both have to look deep inside themselves as mortality dangles by a thread. This is one of those films that arrives once in a blue moon - it demands that you see it on the biggest cinema screen possible. Once the lights fade and darkness envelops the theatre you&amp;#039;re part of Stone&amp;#039;s journey through the infinite. When it comes to film as an experience, it doesn&amp;#039;t get much more thrilling than this.   "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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