Vesper

Vesper

After the collapse of Earth's ecosystem, Vesper, a 13-year-old girl struggling to survive with her paralyzed Father, meets a mysterious Woman with a secret that forces Vesper to use her wits, strength and bio-hacking abilities to fight for the possibility of a future.

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  • Runtime: 120 minutes
  • Genre: Adventure, Drama
  • Stars: Edmund Dehn, Matvej Buravkov, Marijus Demiskis, Markas Eimontas, Titas Rukas, Markas Sagaitis, Eddie Marsan, Raffiella Chapman, Rosy McEwen, Richard Brake, Melanie Gaydos
  • Director: Kristina Buozyte, Bruno Samper
 Comments
  • yelrek - 19 June 2024
    Great add to the sci fi genre, felt like modern, classic sci fi
    This was a very refreshing movie to experience. It felt like true sci-fi. I don't know what that means exactly, lol, but watch the flick and see if you agree. The acting was great, The world building was awesome. It felt like something that could actually happen with little imagination leaping. The science and technology portrayed in the move were cool and relatively unique. The dystopian elements were captivating, leaving me thinking about it a bit, and the scenes were not overly artistic or trying too hard. Overall, it was a gem with a fresh perspective from typical Hollywood. It focused on the story, featured great effects, and presented innovative ideas while avoiding the typical clichés we often see in movies today. If you like sci-fi in general, I'd say give it a go!
  • ma-cortes - 4 February 2024
    Acceptable Sci-Fi set in a dystopian world, after the collapse of Earth's ecosystem a 13-year-old girl is struggling to survive.
    Set in a violent and devastated dystopian future in which the Earth's ecosystem has collapsed, the film follows Vesper, a 13-year-old girl (Raffiela Chapman) who struggles to survive while caring for her sick father (Richard Brake), with whom they communicate via drone (flying drone is either CGI or a real drone, depending on the shots). When Vesper discovers a starry bird from the place where the oligarchy lives, she meets an unknown woman (Rosy McEwen) with a secret who will force her to use her wits, strengths and bio-hacking abilities to fight for the possibility of having a future. Vesper decides to take care of her, dreaming that when he recovers from her, he will take her and her father to the frozen city, although perhaps there is someone (Eddie Marsan) who has other plans for her. One seed can change everything !

    Vesper unites science fiction and drama, in a futuristic fairy tale of stunning design. Some frames and cinematography were inspired by paintings by Vermeer and Rembrandt and other Nederland painters for the lighting. There are visual effects but not too many, they are made to stand out a shot with a plant or an aircraft, as no scenes were shot against a green screen. There's a few and well depicted characters in the film. Main starring is Raffiela Chapman who gives an enjoyable acting as 13-year-old Vesper who must use her wits, strength and bio-hacking abilities to fight for the future, along with her paralyzed father well played by Richard Brake, although he always appears lying down, Rosy McEwen as the mysterious Camellia with hidden secrets and the nasty uncle Jonas finely performed by Eddie Marsan.

    Here I would continue to recommend listening to the sensitive musical score full of spirituals and New age sounds by Dan Levy. As well as colorful and evocative photography by cinematographer Feliksas Abrukauskas ; it was completely shot in Vilnius, Lithuania, mostly outdoors except the house and the farm scenes, which were filmed in a studio. The motion picture was professionally made by directors Kristina Buozyte, Bruno Samper who had already collaborated on Aurora in 2012 and have shot a few films as The ABCs of Death 2, Kolekcioniere, Park' 79 . Vesper(2022) won Golden Raven for the best film in the international selection of the Brussels Fantasy Film Festival and in Lithuanian Film Awards won best actress, best art direction and best makeup. As well as several nominations in Sitges Festival, Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival, Grimm Fest Jameson, CineFest - Miskolc International Film Festival and Bergen Film Festival.
  • ramkoil - 8 September 2023
    Deposit your brain before entering cinema
    Do you remember playing dress up when you were 5 or 6? Well this movie is same dress up. There are no depth to any action, even the actors are just dressed up with perfect skin, teeth and hygiene and physique. The plot has hole you can drive a truck through. God help mankind if future depends on these half brains. As for acting well i recommend some acting lessons before hiring these actors. I can not remember a single character name. Dont waste your time.

    When a quarter through the movie you look at the time and start daydreaming it is time to walk out. Please please next time you do a SF movie try and consult some one with some understanding of the subject matter before finishing the plot.
  • OmertaX - 1 January 2023
    Classic era sci-fi
    I liked this film a lot, first off, you have Vesper, who is a brave and smart little girl with her drone, that is linked to her paralyzed father. They live in a ruined world with a few others in the wilderness, surviving day by day. The rest of the humanity live in hi tech shelters called Citadels. The citadels have access to techs to save the world but they chose control instead. They create mindless slaves, so they dont have to deal with actual humans who struggle to stay alive outside. Vesper experiments on plant seeds that can survive the destroyed planet but she doesnt get any help until one day she finds an injured young woman in the forest. She takes her in and the rest would be spoiler but it all unfolds into a story that truly fits into the classic era sci-fi novels by Asimov, A. C. Clarke, in fact it would be truly fitting into the A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. I read some reviews and the low point reviews are so mistaken in every aspect. I thought to myself, sci-fi is still not to everyone, so this piece must be protected, hence the review.
  • andykd-52558 - 28 November 2022
    Intelligent & Poetic Science Fiction
    I love this film. It is intelligent, subtle, immersive, and treats the viewer as an adult, even if the age of the protagonist might make this seem like YA material. The world building is great, with minimal CGI, and a lot of mud and grime. You're in a new Dark Ages . Life is grim for the have nots ..including Vesper and her seriously ill father. It is obviously ecological and political in its themes, but by the conclusion, it becomes poetic and bordering on mystical. If you like films to fully explain themselves you may feel frustrated or short changed. If you enjoy cinema which offers a sense of mystery and the strangeness of being dropped into an imagined 'what if' world , and sci-fi that is genuinely thoughtful and takes its time to build an atmosphere and sense of awe, then you should give this film a try.
  • lgikl - 13 November 2022
    To many questions...
    It had all the potential but just ends in pure disappointment and you feel worse after watching it.

    For example at the end Vesper (The main character) spreads these seeds that apperantly give an endless supply of food for everyone but how? What even grows from these seeds, what kind of food, is it a tree or a plant?

    They constantly talk about the citadel but you never even get to see what it looks like?

    There is a guy who trades blood with the citedel but what do they use the blood for? Why is it so valuable to them?

    Sometimes leaving certain questions left to a mystery works but the questions that were left un-answered made the story feel empty. They are main parts of the story. You can't talk about this big thing for 2 hours and then not even show us what you were talking about.
  • kuarinofu - 16 October 2022
    Interesting, emotional, very well-produced but short of story essence
    Vesper is a fine dystopian drama made for...I don't know, maybe young adults. It doesn't take things too seriously but looks like it rather wants to attract younger audiences.

    The production was top-notch, and the film packed many familiar emotions and themes. The world was set up, but not much seems to have happened if anything at all. Lots of questions were left unanswered. I understand ambiguous endings, but you shouldn't just abandon the things you've set up. What's with the caterpillar? What's with the scavengers? What's with the mother? Is she the rotting corpse from the lab? Why would one citadel need the codes for other citadel seeds?

    This was probably the biggest issue with this film. It got many things right, almost everything but an interesting story. There's little to no progression. It just makes you wonder why wasn't this a series. Just split this film into two episodes and develop the characters we can surely familiarize ourselves with.

    Instead, they provided tons of great atmospheric sequences with nice music and environmental messages with hints of family bonds here and there. But almost nothing happened with the main story. The ending does not solidify Vesper's path. She could've ended up there without all the things happening.

    It's slow and theme-heavy, but the production kept me watching. 20 minutes till the end, I started to suspect that we were not getting anywhere. Maybe this is only the first installment. If so - I'd love to get back to the sequel. I just hope this doesn't vanish.

    I still can give this film 7/10 for the production and the relatable scenes well-handled. The action was mostly messed up, but I understand the limitations of filming kid violence.

    P. S. I also think that Camellia could've got a better resolution other than a Terminator 2 ending homage.