Richard Linklater returns to his beloved rotoscoping animation format for “Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood.' Inspired by his own childhood in Houston in the 1960s, this sweet nostalgia trip back to 1969 pairs a showy framing device about a kid astronaut with a slice-of-life look at suburbia on the edge of the Space Race. FOX film critic Caroline Siede reviews this Netflix charmer.
Trailer for Richard Linklater's "Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood," streaming on Netflix April 1.. It has been expanded and republished timed to the film's premiere. "Apollo 10½" is now streaming on Netflix.returns to his beloved rotoscoping animation format for this sweet nostalgia trip back to 1969.
Inspired by his own childhood in Houston in the 1960s, "Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood" pairs a showy framing device about a kid astronaut with a slice-of-life look at suburbia on the edge of the Space Race. More narrated docudrama than narrative feature, "Apollo 10½" does at times feel like an older relative monologuing at you about every minute detail from their childhood — from what they ate for dinner to what they watched on TV.
But that myopia is also part of its charm. "Apollo 10½" luxuriates in the details of childhood, some of which are universal and some of which are deeply tied to this particular place and time . Linklater and his collaborators clearly have an immense fondness for a time when science class felt like current events.
Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood - GLEN POWELL as Bostick and ZACHARY LEVI as Kranz. Cr: Netflix © 2022 And while "Apollo 10½" will perhaps play best for those who have nostalgia for their own Space Age childhoods, it’s also not a bad history lesson for a pivotal moment in American history, as remembered by a less-than-reliable narrator.
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