There is a scene in this fall’s lost-in-space thriller Gravity in which Sandra Bullock is floating in a Russian Soyuz capsule, clinging to the hope that she will be A-OK after all that she’s been through because, through some static radio reception, she finally has managed to make contact again with someone down on Earth.
Except the person that she’s communicating with doesn’t speak any English and, in fact, that person couldn’t be farther some being someone who could remotely be of aid.
That person now a story of his own.
To complement Gravity, Jonás Cuarón – the film’s co-writer and the son of Alfonso, its director – has written and directed Aningaaq, a companion seven-minute short about the as-he-turns-out Inuit fisherman in Greenland with whom Bullock’s Dr. Ryan Stone makes contact. Check it.
Fun Trivia Alert!
Both Gravity and Aningaaq will be submitted for Academy Award consideration this season.
Should both earn nominations, this will be the first time in Oscar history that a film and a spin-off piece pull that one off in the same year.
Cool, huh.
Photo: HollywoodReporter.com.
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