Movie reviews

IT’S a reflection, presumably, of our uncertainty about the world’s immediate future in these times of economic recessions and global warming, but Another Earth (12A) is the second film this year, after Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia, to feature a new planet appearing in the solar system.

Distracted by the blue planet’s appearance in the night sky, promising student Rhoda (Brit Marling) makes a fatal error of judgement whilst driving home one night.

The resulting accident kills a wife and two children, leaving a husband, Professor John Burroughs (William Mapother), in a coma.