Vesper

Name: Vesper
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Drama
Released: September 30, 2022
Duration: 114 min
Rating: 70
Cast: Eddie Marsan, Edmund Dehn, Marijus Demiskis, Markas Eimontas, Matvej Buravkov

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Movie Details & Credits

IFC Films | Release Date: September 30, 2022 | NR

Starring: Eddie Marsan, Edmund Dehn, Marijus Demiskis, Markas Eimontas, Matvej Buravkov, Melanie Gaydos, Raffiella Chapman, Richard Brake, Rosy McEwen, Titas Rukas

Summary: After the collapse of Earth’s ecosystem, Vesper, a 13-year-old girl struggling to survive with her father, must use her wits, strength and bio-hacking abilities to fight for the future.

Director: Bruno Samper and Kristina Buozyte

Genre(s): Adventure, Sci-Fi, Drama

Rating: NR

Runtime: 114 min

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The Film Stage Jared Mobarak

Sep 28, 2022

The film zooms in to project humanity’s struggle onto Vesper. With one gust of wind (and some tragic losses), health and prosperity can be hers (and ours) again. Read full review

Polygon Tasha Robinson

Sep 26, 2022

Dystopian sci-fi has rarely been as delicately and beautifully detailed as Kristina Buozyte and Bruno Samper’s new film. Read full review

The Guardian Leslie Felperin

Oct 21, 2022

Vesper plays like a cult film waiting to be discovered. It adeptly fuses a compelling YA-friendly story about a teenage girl’s survival in a hostile environment with dense, thoughtful world-building, the sort required to draw in nerdy-minded viewers. That savvy combination creates a narrative that breathes and expands, like one of the freaky mycelium-like life forms that populate the story. Read full review

Nicolas Rapold

Sep 29, 2022

A wistful beauty and a delicately imaginative sense of craft set Vesper apart from most post-apocalyptic stories. Read full review

Kyle Smith

Sep 29, 2022

The dystopian sci-fi drama Vesper is a gallery of astounding images set in a weirdly enticing future. The new world it depicts is both primitive and advanced, full of richly detailed flora and fauna representing strange new species that came about after mankind experimented heavily with genetic engineering as society crumbled to dust. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

Sep 29, 2022

By the time this highly evocative work of low-budget sci-fi arrives at its eye-opening final scene, the clearest takeaway is that our only hope for survival has been coded into us since the beginning of time. Read full review

Noel Murray

Sep 30, 2022

Vesper is on the arty side of science-fiction, more focused on character and setting than in plot-driven thrills. Read full review

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Filmfreak4life

Oct 3, 2022

Superb cerebral sci-fi with stunning visuals and an incredible central performance from such a young actor.

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raorian

Oct 25, 2022

I good movie with a bunch of flaws, but I appreciate the creativity in this much more than the grindmill that is most cinema these days.
on the bad side, it's like mad max meet blade runner meet detroit (didn't actually like detroit), but can't quite capture anything fully.
visual design isI good movie with a bunch of flaws, but I appreciate the creativity in this much more than the grindmill that is most cinema these days.
on the bad side, it's like mad max meet blade runner meet detroit (didn't actually like detroit), but can't quite capture anything fully.
visual design is unique and the best part. acting is also really excellent.… Expand

0 of 1 users found this helpful01

Kingtucky

Oct 2, 2022

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Only issue with movie is the whole ending could have been avoided if the Jug gave her self up before what happens to Vesper's pop instead of after. B Was pointless to wait.… Expand

8 of 13 users found this helpful85

Badgerryan27

Oct 8, 2022

I liked the world and the atmosphere of the movie but everything else for me was just boring. Maybe I’m just not smart enough but I just didn’t really like it.

3 of 8 users found this helpful35

Daniel101

Mar 10, 2023

Super boring. Unfortunate, because the world and the costumes look great. What a shame, because the story is boring, the pace is slow and the acting is monotonous.

0 of 0 users found this helpful00

Maleficento

Oct 3, 2022

Dystopian Despair...
Imagine what you'd do, living in a world you should eschew, where the flora has an aura and an appetite for you, where the animals have vanished, where you're living as if banished, with a father who's immobile, and you're permanently famished.
You'll struggle to find aDystopian Despair...
Imagine what you'd do, living in a world you should eschew, where the flora has an aura and an appetite for you, where the animals have vanished, where you're living as if banished, with a father who's immobile, and you're permanently famished.
You'll struggle to find a more dystopian and depressing presentation on a potential future of this planet than the one identified here, as Vesper roams the barren wastelands in search of food (if you could call it that) while locking horns with her uncle before discovering Camellia who changes here direction of travel.
It's not the most exciting piece of Science Fiction you'll come across and I'm not sure it will add too much value to any musing you might have on the future direction of this planet, other than to hope it's not as bad as this.… Expand

5 of 19 users found this helpful514

Mack9393

Sep 30, 2022

Fear porn for the eco-paranoids that glue themselves to high culture. If you’ve seen any of the ecological cataclysm or post apocalyptic centered films in the last twenty years then you’ve seen this.

10 of 35 users found this helpful1025

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