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The Vast of Night

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The Vast of Night

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One night in New Mexico, in the late 1950s, a switchboard operator and radio DJ start hearing a strange signal over a radio frequency.

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A star rating of 4 out of 5.

Andrew Collins

A pair of students receive messages from outer space in this stylish and knowing riff on Twilight Zone-style storytelling. Framed by a device that beckons us into an episode of fictional TV anthology Paradox Theater, it sees science student Fay (an engaging Sierra McCormick) and beatnik DJ Everett (Jake Horowitz) picking up extraterrestrial interference through the switchboard Fay operates. Rattling off dialogue at a furious pace, the pair prove engagingly offbeat, while their real-time dashing hither and thither results in two long and absorbing monologues (one from Gail Cronauer's bereaved elder). Skilfully playing with tone, debut director Andrew Patterson has forged an affectionate, Spielbergian paean to the 1950s that lands somewhere between small-town screwball comedy and genuinely eerie sci-fi, and heralds a promising new film-making voice.

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6.7/10

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Cast

rolenameFay CrockerSierra McCormickEverett SloanJake HorowitzMabel BlancheGail CronauerBillyBruce Davis (2)BertsieCheyenne Barton

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rolenameDirectorAndrew Patterson

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Released on

2020-05-29

Languages

English

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