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Information
- Year
- 2022
- Runtime
- 114 min.
- Directors
- Kristina Buozyte, Bruno Samper
- Genres
- Drama, Adventure, Sci-Fi
- Rating *
- 5.9
- Votes *
- 0
- Checks
- 276
- Favs
- 11
- Dislikes
- 5
- Favs/checks
- 4.0% (1:25)
- Favs/dislikes
- 2:1
Top comments
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Siskoid
The world of Vesper might as well be an alien planet, with its post-apocalyptic biome and lo-fi gene hacking, but it IS Earth, friends, Earth after we done ruined it with genetically-engineered viruses. Vesper (Raffiella Chapman) is a 15-year-old girl taking care of her bed-ridden dad in the harsh boonies of this world, too clever for her own good, when their lives are flipped upside down by the arrival of someone from the "Citadel", where the Haves live in comfort and luxury. In addition to the great world-building and image-making, writer-directors Kristina Buozyte and Bruno Samper offer a plot that rarely strikes me as predictable. Eddie Marsan is surprisingly threatening as the villainous uncle who is only out for himself. Vesper is a little as if David Cronenberg wrote Young Adult fiction, and if either of those pieces of DNA interest you, you should find something to like here (and I dare say it's smarter than all or most of the YA adaptations I've seen). 8 months 3 weeks ago