Gravity

In 2009, the son of director Alfonso Cuaron, Honas, gave his father a draft version of the script of his upcoming film to read. After reading it, Cuaron Sr. was imbued with the story written by his son, and realized that he wanted to do something similar:

An absolutely fascinating spectacle is unfolding in front of you. You immerse yourself in it, empathize with the heroes, but at the same time the main ones are not action scenes, but the inner development of the hero, his spiritual and emotional transformation.

Having started work, the director considered Angelina Jolie, Natalie Portman, Blake Lively, Scarlett Johansson, Marion Cotillard, Rachel Weisz, Naomi Watts and other candidates for the main female role. Bullock, who eventually agreed to the role, admitted that she did not understand how she would be filmed: "I had absolutely no idea how such an idea could be implemented. I was told that I would have to shoot in a large plane that rises into the sky and plummets down, simulating weightlessness conditions for 20 seconds. And so all day. And I also don't like flying."Filming took place from May to July 2011 at Shepperton Studios ru en, Surrey, England and on the territory of Powell Reservoir, Arizona, USA. There were robots and a lot of equipment on the set, and Cuaron decided to resort to the American NASA and the Russian Falcon as spacesuits.The British company Framestoreruen, which was engaged in the development of special effects for the picture, said that the film is comparable in ambition to James Cameron's Avatar. In particular, about 60% of the events taking place on the screen were created using computer graphics.

Executive producer Chris De Faria said that the film begins with a 17-minute scene shot in one take without visible editing glues.Almost all the scenes of the film were prepared using a computer, then the faces of the actors were integrated into them, filmed in a specially built cube measuring 6 × 6 × 6 meters with LED walls, on which an image of the surrounding space was displayed. As a result, reliable reflections in the glasses of spacesuits and chiaroscuro on faces and clothes were obtained. Rendering was performed using the Arnold program. Programmers wrote 71 thousand lines of code just for processing shaders. According to the head of visual effects Chris Watts, if a single-processor computer was used for visualization, calculations would have to start 5 thousand years before our era in order to be in time for the premiere.

According to the portal Rotten Tomatoes, 97% of critics gave the film a positive rating, the average rating for almost 300 reviews was 9.1 out of 10. Metacritic gave the film a rating of 96 out of 100 based on 49 reviews.

The film, despite the accurate depiction of many spacecraft, was criticized by a number of scientific experts for various technical errors, in particular, an overly simplified image of flights between various space objects. In response to criticism, the director of the film stated that "the film is not a documentary, but a fantastic one."James Cameron called "Gravity" the best film about space in the history of cinema. Quentin Tarantino also included the film among the best pictures of the year in his opinion. Many publications have named "Gravity" one of the best films of 2013, including Rolling Stone, Huffington Post, The Guardian, Yahoo Movies, GQ, Adme, Newspaper. And such publications as Time, Empire, "The World of Fiction", KG-Portal Called it the best film of the year.