Because agriculture is threatened by multiple viruses and the climate is drying out, mankind seems condemned to disappear from the Earth. Forced to become a farmer in this dying world, Cooper, engineer and pilot, raises his son Tom and daughter Murphy, helped by the father of his dead wife. An extraordinary event pushes him to discover that NASA has secretly been preparing a last-ditch mission to find a new home for mankind. Driven by the desire to find a future for his children, Cooper decides to leave them and embark on an expedition into a black hole…

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In many ways, Interstellar’s screenplay starts to show, as does the Hollywood aspect of a handful of visually spectacular but otherwise shaky scenes. Whether naïve or humanist, Christopher Nolan’s ninth movie hits the purest of emotions all the way through. Even if it pits the epic dimension of its story against the harrowing simplicity of a father stolen from his daughter.