A teenage girl Vesper (Raffiella Chapman ) is rooting around in the scrub and rough earth to find roots to eat. She refuses to live under the control of Jonas ( Eddie Marsan) in the village near bye. The people are all subsisting and are as poor as the earth they fail to grow crops in. The seeds are genetically corrupted and sterile. Further away from here is the Citadel where only rich oligarchs live in luxury served by their synthetic servants . Vesper lives with her terminally ill Father, and is protected by a robotic sphere that carries the speaking soul of her Father in it,
She is conducting experiments with seeds trying to find a way that they might be made fertile. One day she discovers an injured young woman Camellia (Rosy McEwan )from the Citadel in the forest. Vesper strikes up a friendship with her. Knowing full well that she spells danger, as eventually the Citadel will eventually try to find her. But not before she discovers Camilla is someone that could liberate the lives of everyone living outside of the Citadel.
This film offers you the bleakest of bleak dystopian worlds. With a very limited budget it makes the most of its Lithuanian landscape and mist, to conjure an entirely believable sub culture. It is slow moving and the story line is a simple one. This film is very much a mood piece, and spends its hour fifty letting you feel and comprehend the daily details of these characters existence. Whilst it may look like its a movie for young adults in the vein of Hunger Games, it isn't, and is not afraid to stick to its aesthetic guns and hold to its pace. Just so long as you are prepared to go with that, I think you'll find this ultimately a much more satisfying film than you might first think.
CARROT REVIEW - 5/8
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