Director Alice Winocour offers a contemplative and nuanced take on the subject of exploring new frontiers while introducing a new variable to the battery of astronaut tests and trials: motherhood.

[xrr rating=2.75/5]Similar to Jane Campion’s Bright Star, Alice Winocour’s Augustine revolves around a historically important man, but centers on a woman of great importance to him. But where Campion’s critique of artist-muse conceptions added rewarding contours to an oversimplified dichotomy, Winocour’s film seeks to completely destroy the equally reductive treatment given to doctor-patient relationships. In Augustine, pioneering neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot …