Aniara
Overview
This Swedish film, directed by Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lilja, is based on a 1956 sci-fi poem by Harry Martinson of the same name. It details life for the human inhabitants on the spaceship Aniara as it travels from a close-to uninhabitable earth to its new colonial destination of Mars. However, soon after take off, the spaceship collides with space shrapnel and is sent off course. With the uncertainty of their arrival and supplies running out, a Virtual Reality room run by Mimaroben (Emelie Jonsson) built for passengers to experience memories of earth is overrun by demand.
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Details
- Format: Blu-ray
- UPC: 876964016704
- Genre: HORROR / SCI-FI / FANTASY
- Rating: R (MPAA)
- Release Date: August 2019
Movie Reviews
Reviews:
"Physically, it’s an impressive production, one that offers a few glimpses of the ship moving through the darkness..." - 09/07/2019 Hollywood Reporter
"The handsomely crafted film has a degree of spectacle, with good CGI work in external views of the vessel and its deep space surroundings." - 04/23/2019 Variety
3 stars out of 4 -- "This is an exemplary high-concept contemporary sci-fi film....The fly-on-various-walls tenor of the direction is aided greatly by Sophie Winqvist’s cinematography." - 05/17/2019 RogerEbert.com
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