Review – The Man Who Fell to Earth

Nicolas Roeg was the Las Von Trier of the 1970s, which is to say that his visuals are slick and sometimes intense but otherwise his movies tend to be a bit on the pointless side. This one’s case in point. A weird looking space guy (David Bowie) comes to Earth and sets up a huge corporation selling alien technology to raise money to ship water back to his barren world. After that a lot of weird things happen. Even the copious sex scenes are odd. Though I’m sure this was stylish and innovative when it first came out, now it’s little more than a peculiar relic. See if desperate