Vivarium (film)

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Movie
Original title Vivarium
Country of production Belgium , Ireland , Denmark , USA
original language English
Publishing year 2019
length 98 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Lorcan Finnegan
script Garret Shanley
production Brendan McCarthy ,
John McDonnell
music Kristian Eidnes Andersen
camera MacGregor
cut Tony Cranstoun
occupation

Vivarium is a science fiction thriller directed by Lorcan Finnegan , which premiered on May 18, 2019 as part of the Cannes International Film Festival .

action

Gemma and Tom are a couple in a serious relationship and are already looking for a home together. Just for fun, take a look at the Yonder residential complex with the somewhat strange realtor Martin. One house there is like the next. When Martin introduces them to house number 9, he suddenly disappears and his car is no longer there either. Gemma and Tom want to leave the facility, but everything looks the same. You can't find the way anymore. Eventually they run out of fuel. The next day Tom climbs up on the roof to get an overview. But up to the horizon you only see the same houses. They decide to follow the sun straight ahead, but they land back at house number 9. As a last attempt, Tom sets the house on fire as an emergency signal. But nobody shows up and the next day the house is just as it was before. Before that there is a package with a baby that they are supposed to take care of.

The child is growing unusually quickly. It imitates Tom and Gemma and keeps screaming loudly. The boy is unusual and his behavior is barely human. One day Tom makes the discovery that the soil and the lawn are very strange. He begins to dig and does so day in and day out. Meanwhile, Gemma tries to solve the riddle for the boy. Over time, she finds out that he actually has a different anatomy than a human. She begins to be afraid. When the boy grows up, he no longer lets his parents into the house. Tom falls ill and dies. The boy brings a box with a body bag, puts Tom in there and throws him into the hole he dug. Gemma is full of sadness. But she attacks the boy who suddenly lifts the sidewalk and seeks protection there. Gemma apparently finds different worlds in which people raise the boy. When she comes to, she is as weak as Tom was before. The boy puts her in a body bag too and throws it at Tom. Ultimately, the boy takes Gemma's car, drives into town and looks for Martin's shop. When he comes in, Martin dies. The boy takes his name tag and puts Martin in a body bag, folds it up and throws it away.

production

Directed by Lorcan Finnegan . Garret Shanley wrote the script . Jared Mobarak from The Film Stage writes that the natural feeling in their new home causes the couple to dismiss its peculiarities, but this quickly turns out to be a prison, which the title alludes to. He recalls that a vivarium is an enclosure that is used to observe or study animals under natural conditions. In ancient times, every form of an animal park was called a vivarium (Latin: vivarium = "container for living animals").

The shooting took place in Liège, Belgium and in the Ardmore Studios in Dublin . MacGregor acted as cameraman .

The film music was composed by Kristian Eidnes Andersen . A soundtrack album with a total of eleven pieces of music was released for download from Milan Records in April 2020.

The film celebrated its world premiere on May 18, 2019 as part of the Cannes International Film Festival in the Semaine de la critique. Charles Tesson, the artistic director of the Semaine de la critique, describes the film as a mixture of The Twilight Zone and The Truman Show . In July 2019 it was screened at the Fantasia Film Festival and the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival , at the end of July and beginning of August 2019 at the Jerusalem Film Festival and in August 2019 at the Melbourne International Film Festival. Vivarium is in the official selection of the Fantasy Filmfest taking place in September 2019 . It was also shown at Fantastic Fest in Austin in September 2019, followed by screenings at the London Film Festival in early October 2019 and then at the Warsaw International Film Festival . The film was due to hit cinemas in the UK on March 27, 2020, but the launch has been canceled due to the coronoavirus pandemic. Instead, it is to be released on March 27, 2020 as video-on-demand as digital HD.

reception

Age ratings and reviews

In the USA, the film received an R rating from the MPAA , which corresponds to a rating of 17 and over. In Germany, the film was approved by the FSK from the age of 16.

So far, the film has won over 72 percent of all Rotten Tomatoes critics .

Jared Mobarak from The Film Stage writes in his review, director Lorcan Finnegan and screenwriter Garret Shanley made the nightmare in which Gemma and Tom find each other equally terrifying and entertaining in their science fiction film. From the optical illusion of their surroundings to the eccentricities of this child, which they don't even honor with a name, the film gets under your skin. Soon Gemma and Tom’s needs and wants would be replaced by those dictated by the simulation. The film is also a metaphor for what our life means within the human collective: “We are goods, slaves, laboratory rats and viruses. We exist under the guise of individuality only to adapt to a capitalist world that takes our uniqueness away from us in order to submit to the whims of a larger whole. ”As a human being, one adjusts to survive in this system, but in reality let us be just tools that created our own substitutes through our children, said Mobarak. He calls people “incubators that ensure that the capitalist machinery does not stop.” Man would do this voluntarily, because it is in our nature. With regard to the eponymous prison in which Gemma and Tom are, Mobarak sums up: "As they say in Vegas: The house always wins."

Awards

Fantasy Filmfest 2019

Cannes International Film Festival 2019

  • Nomination for the Critics' Prize in the Semaine internationale de la Critique (Lorcan Finnegan)
  • Awarded the Prix Fondation Gan à la Diffusion

Sitges Film Festival 2019

  • Nomination for Best Film in the Official Fantàstic Competition (Lorcan Finnegan)
  • Award for Best Actress ( Imogen Poots )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for vivarium . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 198855 / V). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ a b c Jared Mobarak: Vivarium Review: Jesse Eisenberg & Imogen Poots Go House Hunting in Entertaining, Frightening Thriller. In: The Film Stage, March 23, 2020.
  3. ↑ 'Vivarium' Soundtrack Released. In: filmmusicreporter.com, April 24, 2020.
  4. ↑ Irish film Vivarium selected to premiere at Cannes. In: thejournal.ie, April 22, 2019.
  5. ↑ Elsa Keslassy: Cannes Critics' Week Unveils Its Lineup. In: Variety, April 22, 2019.
  6. ^ Rob Hunter: Genre Films from Around the World Head to Fantasia Film Festival 2019. In: filmschoolrejects.com, June 27, 2019.
  7. ↑ Fear and Terror in Neuchâtel: The Most Expected Films from NIFFF 2019. In: outnow.ch. Retrieved July 6, 2019.
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  11. ↑ Christian Zilko: Fantastic Fest Announces Second Wave of lineup, Rian Johnson's 'Knives Out' to Close Festival. In: indiewire.com, August 20, 2019.
  12. ↑ 63rd BFI London Film Festival program announced. In: bfi.org.uk, August 29, 2019.
  13. ↑ Program 2019. In: wff.pl. Retrieved September 29, 2019.
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  16. ↑ Vivarium. In: Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
  17. ↑ competition. In: fantasyfilmfest.com. Retrieved October 2, 2019.
  18. ↑ La sélection 2019: Compétition Longs métrages. In: semainedelacritique.com. Retrieved April 23, 2019.
  19. ↑ The eagerly-awaited 'Ready or Not', the Lovecraftian 'Color Out of Space' and the Spanish-Argentinean co-production '4x4', leading off the preview of new Sitges 2019 titles. In: sitgesfilmfestival.com, August 30, 2019.
  20. ^ Emilio Mayorga: Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia's debut 'The Platform' Tops Sitges Awards. In: Variety, October 12, 2019.