Academy Award nominees Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal star in a haunting exploration of marriage and identity set in an uncertain world.
Set in the near future when corporate power and environmental decay are ravaging the planet, Hen and Junior are a young, married couple living a solitary life on their isolated farm.
One night, a knock on the door from a stranger named Terrance changes everything: Junior has been randomly selected to travel to a large, experimental space station orbiting Earth.
Director
Garth Davis
Cast
Saoirse Ronan, Paul Mescal, Aaron Pierre
Rating
Year
2023
Country
United States, Australia, United Kingdom
Language
English
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Reviews
- "An emotional, if familiar, take on loyalty and technology in a world where love and survival feel near-impossible. Reid’s writing shines and there’s nobody better than Mescal and Ronan to broadcast heartbreak."
- Empire Magazine - "Mescal and Ronan are captivating: her watchful, raw-nerved longing; his stinging sense of betrayal."
- Observer - "The film is an emotional rollercoaster bursting full of dynamic tensions, mind-bending twists and shattering truths. It’s the perfect combination of high marital drama and science fiction thinkpiece, and with the lengths the film goes to, Foe is a worthy addition to the emotional sci-fi canon."
- TheWrap - "Perverse as it is to cast two of the world’s most talented young actors as the two sides of a curdled marriage, Mescal and Ronan both excel at sinking into themselves, with the latter’s irrepressible force of will squeezing against the walls of the musty farmhouse as if her life were a shoe five sizes too small."
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Festivals
- BFI London Film Festiva
- New York Film Festival
- Nashville Film Festival