Plot Synopsis: The ship after which the movie is named is a long haul transport ship for climate refugees leaving a desiccated and burning Earth to populate Mars. An accident throws the ship irrevocably off course, and the story tracks one woman's life in a series of vignettes over several years as they fly off into interstellar space. (There’s a lot more details in this Wikipedia article, but lots of spoilers too.)

Review: While I don't believe this was intended as a feminist movie, it is a strong, women-centered story that passes the Bechdel test with flying colors. All but one of the small cast of main characters are women. The captain's male leadership style may be what leads the ship and passengers into further danger and misery, whereas the women are throughout trying to enable people to survive and thrive through a difficult situation.

The main character's same sex attraction, intimacy, and relationship are in focus throughout. I can’t evaluate the value to SSA-women as I’m straight but the loving empathy of the presentation, the small details of behavior, the normalcy of it in the midst of increasing strangeness and despair suggest to me that lesbians and bisexual women would find this movie to be a satisfying representation. There are some uncomfortable opposite-sex interactions, but rather than being extraneous and lurid, they are an expected manifestation of the plight the passengers find themselves in, and hardly the least distressing turn of events.

The movie is extremely slow paced, not one edge of seat moment. The small amount of violence is off-screen, hinted. What draws you through is the winding-path nature of the story - you want to see the main character and others solve their accumulating problems, you want to see them prevail, and hope is the current that pulls you through, but the problems themselves twist and extend like the bends in a river.

Interestingly this movie has a very similar plot to the extremely dark comedy series Avenue 5, but as far as I can tell the movie came out first.

P.S. I never imagined a movie review would be my first Ovarit post after 4 years of lurking, but y'all have everything else covered!