The film starring Megan Northam as Elsa, revolves around an 'absent' hero, Franck, who disappeared during a space mission three years ago.

: Clermont-Ferrand and its surrounds, Saint-Éloy-les-Mines, Royat, the forest in Orcines, the crater lake in Gour de Tazenat, and in Paris and Belgium.

Concluding, Mintzer praised Dan Levy for his "dreamy score" and Clapin’s visual talents and wrote, Meanwhile on Earth takes us beyond our desolate everyday lives to a place we can indeed dream of — and also witness on screen.

"[14] Damon Wise opined that the writer-director Jérémy Clapin improvised Jean Cocteau’s 1950 classic Orphée and giving it a "very modern makeover", explores concept of grief with Meanwhile on Earth "in a strange, poetic, and endearingly surreal meditation on the counter-intuitive ways in which we react when confronted with loss."

Lemercier concluded the review opining, "No doubt Jérémy Clapin will refine many elements even further during his next awaited voyage into the galaxy of fiction.