william mapother  Brit Marling is stunning in ANOTHER EARTH
Article: Brit Marling is stunning in ANOTHER EARTH  It’s kind of
puzzling to me that ANOTHER EARTH is billed as a science
fiction/fantasy/drama. The story of Rhoda (Brit Marling), a
young woman who kills a man’s wife and child in a car accident
and then tries to atone for her mistake, is more like a quietly
played drama set against a backdrop of space travel to a second,
identical planet Earth. Still, it’s that backdrop as well as the
film’s deftly handled inclusion of the complicated physics and
math involved in the exciting multiuniverse theory that made it
a shoe-in for the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize at Sundance
earlier this year. And all science aside, the muted way the film
portrays the moral dilemma Rhoda is faced with made it an only
all too worthy winner of the festival’s Special Jury Prize as
well.