Fantastic Fest Review: Vesper

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Eco-horror melds with fairytales in this remarkable FantasticFest parable. VesperMovie

, much like our own present, there is the edible and inedible. The control of that which is edible is the ultimate source of power, and the ability to let the nature grow freely is the ultimate act of rebellion., Kristina Buožytė and Bruno Semper created a surrealist wonderland in the mind of a woman trapped in a coma. Technically,, Buožytė was the sole credited director, while Semper was the"visual style author.

That could account for the organic changes, but then this film is not about the strange sensuality and flowing visuals of their debut. Instead, this is a world of corrupted growth: or rather, one that has seemingly outgrown humanity, and is sending it back to the soil.

Unlike most eco-horrors, this is not an arid, baked future; it is green and verdant, but utterly inhospitable, and this is the world in which Vesper has found herself. A 13-year-old with a flair for biosciences, she sits in a collapsing house with the mummified body of her mother and her paralyzed father who has been gifted a limited mobility by the Citadel that used him up in the war: a floating drone that he can control, psionically, on which Vesper has painted a happy face.

Of course, there's a hiccup in the disorder of things - or rather two. First, Vesper finds lost seeds upon which she can experiment; second, a ship from the Citadel crashes, and an impossibly pallid women, Camellia is the sole survivor. Over her father's protestations , Vesper takes her in, and these two catalyzing opportunities are enough to set her on an inevitable path to changing the world.spectacle here: instead, Vesper and Camellia quietly inhabit this fantastical land.

There is a fairytale aspect, of the dangerous forest that the plucky young heroine must overcome to slay the beast; but, more importantly, fairytales are metaphors. Vesper herself is not some pristine princess, but the scientist who is convinced that their idea can overcome a system that has corrupted the environment. The changed world - seductively, brutally, dangerously entrancing as it is - is the result of the Citadel's meddling, and her task is to undo the incorrect.

 

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