‘Evening Evening’
Directors: Kristina Buozytė and Bruno Samper
artists: Raffiella Chapman, Eddie Marsan, Rosy McEwen, Richard Brake
Year: 2022
Premiere: 6 July 2023
Set among Kristina Buožytė and Bruno Samper’s ‘young adult’ literary subgenre, the most cerebral and contemplative science fiction and Grimm’s dark tales, the new film is a dystopia set in a new world, both primitive and ultra-advanced. , a techno-feudal society resulting from both our excesses in genetic engineering and the resulting ecological and economic collapse. At its center is an extremely determined girl who faces the dangers lurking in a post-apocalyptic landscape as she tries to keep her ailing father alive, and watching her manage to transform the narrative and visual elements – ‘titles like’ – that previous films have made archetypal. Stalker’, ‘Children of Men’, ‘The Highway’, ‘The Hunger Games’, ‘Elysium’ or ‘Annihilation’ transform into something completely unique, equal parts nostalgic and modern.
To this end, Buožytė and Samper pay more attention to the creation of atmospheres and psychologies than plot, and above all to the construction of an irresistibly dense and imaginary universe that erases the distinctions between plant and animal and between animals. organic and synthetic with touches of “Cronenbergian” body terror; a world that is not entirely welcoming, where every interaction threatens to degenerate into violence and yet warm moments and glimmers of hope emerge.