JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER | DENMARK, GERMANY, IRELAND, ITALY, UNITED KINGDOM, SWEDEN | 2024 | 148 MIN | ENGLISH
Tilda Swinton and Michael Shannon star in this audaciously strange post-apocalyptic musical, which follows a wealthy family sequestered in a lavish bunker 25 years after an environmental catastrophe has seemingly wiped out the rest of humankind. Mother (Swinton), Father (Shannon), and twenty-something Son (George MacKay) attempt to lead a normal existence within their sealed-off environment, living in blissful denial about the state of the world outside and the roles they played in bringing it about. Son has never known the real world, but when a mysterious woman from the outside (Moses Ingram) enters the picture, her arrival fractures the carefully calibrated fantasy created by Mother and Father, and tensions within the bunker rise. Best known for his sobering, formally daring documentaries The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence, Joshua Oppenheimer fully embraces the musical genre for his first narrative feature. Subverting sentimental tropes to tell a deadly serious story, Oppenheimer offers a potent cautionary tale about the seductive allure of fantasy in a world where facing reality is of utmost importance.
Cast: Tilda Swinton, George MacKay, Moses Ingram, Michael Shannon
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