No, Skywalkers: A Love Story is not a movie that advances the in hindsight uncomfortable smooch between Luke (Mark Hamill) and Leia (Carrie Fisher) in The Empire Strikes Back. Instead this documentary, which premiered on Netflix over the weekend, covers a Russian daredevil couple and their exploits atop a skyscraper. Jeff Zimbalist (whose 2005 environmental doc Favela Rising was shortlisted for Best Feature in its genre at the Oscars) and Maria Bukhonina co-direct. The pic originally premiered at Sundance back in January.
The Tomato meter currently sits at 73%. That mixed reaction is unlikely to put it in contention with the Academy. I didn’t have Skywalkers listed in my 10 possibilities for Doc Feature in my initial projections last weekend and wouldn’t count on it climbing up. My Oscar Prediction posts will continue…
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