Vesper (2022 film)
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| Music by | Dan Levy |
| Cinematography | Feliksas Abrukauskas |
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Running time | 114 minutes |
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| Language | English |
| Budget | €5 million |
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Vesper is a 2022 Belgian-French-Lithuanian science-fiction film directed by Kristina Buožytė and Bruno Samper which stars Raffiella Chapman, Eddie Marsan, Rosie McEwen and Richard Brake, and is shot in English[3]. It is set in a bleak post-apocalyptic Earth, and follows a 13-year old girl skilled in bio-hacking. The film was selected to compete at the 2022 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival[4].
Plot[edit]
In the future, Earth has suffered an ecological collapse due to massive diffusion of GMOs. All animals have died except humains, who are struggling to survive. The richest have taken refuge in cities cut off from the world, called Citadels, while the rest live in dire conditions, like Vesper, a 13-year old girl who lives in a house in the forest with her father, Darius, who is paralyzed. One day, a Citadel ship crashes nearby, and Vesper finds a survivor, a young woman who will change her life.
Cast[edit]
- Raffiella Chapman as Vesper, a 13-year old girl living alone with her father; she demonstrates great aptitude at bio-hacking and tries to help Camellia after rescuing her.
- Eddie Marsan as Jonas, Vesper's uncle and Darius' brother, who is the brutal leader of a nearby group of survivors.
- Rosie McEwen as Camellia, a Citadel citizen whose ship crashed in the forest before being rescued by Vesper.
- Richard Brake as Darius, Vesper's father, paralyzed but always following her via a talking drone.
- Melanie Gaydos as Jug, a genetically created human being devoid of intelligence, used as slave labor in Jonas' camp.
- Edmund Dehn as Elias, Camellia's father, who is head scientist at the nearest Citadel.
- Matvej Buravkov as Boz
- Marijus Demiskis as Med
- Markas Eimontas as Mo
- Titas Rukas as Beck
- Markas Sagaitis as Fitz
Production[edit]
The movie has been six years in the making for directors/writers Kristina Buožytė and Bruno Samper[5], who had already collaborated together on Vanishing Waves in 2012[6]. They chose to shoot it in English to broaden its appeal[3].
It was entirely shot in Vilnius, Lithuania[7], mostly outdoors except the scenes inside Vesper's house, which were shot in a studio[8]. Location scouting in Lithuania proved very difficult, as there was two meters of snow, so the crew had to imagine how the locations would look like once the snow had melted. It was still snowing two weeks before the beginning of the shoot, and at that point, no location had been confirmed, so they decided on the locations during shooting[8].
Cinematographer Feliksas Abrukauskas was inspired by paintings from Vermeer and Rembrandt for the light[9][5].
While visual effects are present in the movie, there are mostly there to enhance a shot with a plant or a ship, as no scene was shot against a green screen[9]. Vesper's flying drone is either CGI and a real drone, depending on the shots, as the real drone was very loud and actors couldn't concentrate on their lines when it was flying[9].
Release[edit]
Vesper debuted at the 2022 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival on 2 July 2022[10]. The film opened in French theatres on 18 August 2022. It is set to be released in the USA, Lithuania and Turkey on 30 September 2022, and then Germany and Singapore on 6 October 2022[11].
Reception[edit]
Box office[edit]
In France, the movie sold 13,352 tickets on its first day, earning a fifth place, for 303 copies, right behind Where the Crawdads Sing[12]. During its first week however, Vesper did not reach the French top 10 but managed to sell 76,366 tickets, for an average of 256 tickets per copy[13], and went on to sell 36,552 tickets in its second week[14].
Critical response[edit]
Olivier Delcroix, writing for Le Figaro, found the movie "the result of a string of carefully thought through choices, a very beautiful immersive movie who resembles a strange sci-fi fable, fascinating and otherwordly."[15] Philippe Guedj of Le Point found "influences from Cronenberg, Giger, Jim Henson or even Miyazaki", with "the movie zigzagging between a Grimm fairytale mood and a hyperreal painting of a medieval future."[16]
Ben Croll of The Wrap deemed the film "something wholly unique — at once modern and timeless, nostalgic for a genre only just created, already pining for images freshly cast up on screen."[17]. Robert Daniels, writing for RogerEbert.com, remarked that "you’d think someone like Vesper who’s experienced so much tragedy and misfortune would carry at least a twinge of bitterness or some flaw", but wrote that "The major draw of “Vesper,” however, is the imaginative world building by Buozyte and Samper."[18]. Guy Lodge of Variety saw "a sci-fi film fascinated by earthly survival, not sleek, state-of-the-art spectacle — though it often dazzles just the same", and praised "the sophisticated technical realization of this desperate dystopia..." "...achieved on a budget presumably a fraction of that granted to most franchised Hollywood fantasies"[19].
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Nearing the premiere of the movie at Karlovy Vary, Kristina Buožytė and Bruno Samper tell us more on Vesper (in French)". Cineuropa. 26 June 2022. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
- ↑ "IFC Films Takes North American Rights To Karlovy Vary Sci-Fi 'Vesper' Starring Eddie Marsan, Rosy McEwen". Deadline. 6 June 2022. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Vesper Festival Press Kit" (PDF). kviff.com. 26 June 2022. p. 3. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
- ↑ "Vesper". kviff.com. 14 April 2022. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Kristina Buožytė and Bruno Samper • Co-directors of Vesper (in French)". Cineuropa. 8 July 2022. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
- ↑ "Vesper Festival Press Kit" (PDF). kviff.com. 26 June 2022. p. 11. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
- ↑ "Vesper - Filming & Production". IMDb. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Vesper Festival Press Kit" (PDF). kviff.com. 26 June 2022. p. 6. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 "Vesper Festival Press Kit" (PDF). kviff.com. 26 June 2022. p. 7. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
- ↑ Mouriquand, David (4 July 2022). "Karlovy Vary film festival returns for its 56th edition after two years marred by COVID-19". EuroNews. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
- ↑ "Vesper - Release Info". IMDb. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
- ↑ Baronnet, Brigitte (18 August 2022). "French box-office: Does Tricky Old Dogs have a better start than the first one? (in French)". Allociné. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
- ↑ Pierrette, Maximilien (24 August 2022). "French box-office: one million tickets for Bullet Train, Top Gun is closing in on Tom Cruise's record (in French)". Allociné. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
- ↑ "Vesper French box-office (in French)". Allociné. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
- ↑ Delcroix, Olivier (16 August 2022). "Our review of 'Vesper' (in French)". Le Figaro. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
- ↑ Guedj, Philippe (16 August 2022). "Sci-Fi and resourcefulness: the apocalypse according to 'Vesper' (in French)". Le Point. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
- ↑ Pierrette, Maximilien (6 July 2022). "'Vesper' Film Review: Quietly Dazzling Sci-Fi Drama Creates a New Kind of Genre". The Wrap. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
- ↑ Daniels, Robert (3 July 2022). "KVIFF 2022: Joyland, Vesper, Moonage Daydream". RogerEbert.com. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
- ↑ Lodge, Guy (2 July 2022). "'Vesper' Review: A Resourceful, Richly Built European Sci-Fi Fairytale". Variety. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
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