An amused but never mocking look at how we would handle things if beings from another planet landed on Earth.

Feels like a Calvin Klein advert directed by a lobotomised Professor Brian Cox.

At first feels like a bizarre exercise in conjecture or a brainstorming session for fiction writers, but it turns into a provocative and moving philosophical inquiry.

Madsen's choice to take the alien's perspective falls flat on its face from frame one, a mistake the film never fully recovers from.