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‘Meanwhile on Earth’ Review: Aliens Use Human Bodies to Experience Our Planet in Cleverly Executed Sci-Fi Drama From ‘I Lost My Body’ Director
In his follow-up to 'I Lost My Body,' French director Jérémy Clapin blends live-action and animation for an existential alien invasion drama.
Though it begins with its cinematic feet affixed to the ground, French writer-director Jérémy Clapin ’s “ Meanwhile on Earth,” his moody hybrid follow-up to the lyrical, Oscar-nominated animated feature “I Lost My Body,” soon launches beyond the stratosphere and into outer space. Adrift, Elsa (Megan Northam), a young caregiver with a talent for drawing, looks to the stars for answers about the whereabouts of her older brother Franck (voiced by Sébastien Pouderoux), a cosmonaut who never returned to this planet from a mission. The beguiling atmosphere is completed through the mysteriously yearning music of composer Dan Levy, who also scored “I Lost My Body.” This comprehensive orchestration of cinematic language does the heavy lifting to immerse the viewer in the otherworldliness of the film’s premise, since the handling of sci-fi elements, while clever, is rather economical: the aliens are never seen, they exist only as a voice.
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