Director James Gray’s grim, purposeful screenplay is designed for those who like their cop dramas long and black.
Working for the third time with Joaquin Phoenix, film-maker James Gray explores the risks of love from the perspective of a man markedly scarred by it.
It’s the psychological landscape of astronaut Roy McBride’s inner life, and the way it mirrors the profound solitude into which he escapes, that primarily concerns writer-director James Gray.