Nobody cares if you depict half naked women using their bodies to get ahead. Nobody minds much if you blow a gang of baddies away with an AK-47. Nobody even minds car chases or natural disasters with destruction of epic proportions. But portray religion and you’re asking for trouble.

But it’s when Jim Lovell talks about holding his thumb up against the sky and being able to hide the earth behind it that you get a slight shiver up your spine. "That’s how small we all are," Lovell says serenely in In the Shadow of the Moon, "you can hide the whole Earth and all its problems behind a single thumb."

But where every frame is beautiful, they’re not perfect to the extent they were in Zodiac — still Fincher’s Citizen Kane. It’s a genuine pleasure to see a movie with nice colours, soft edges and a slow-burn sensibility in the camerawork and cinematography.