8/10
Procreation Psychological Nightmare
10 September 2024
Warning: Spoilers
This film's premise presents a frightening possibility with a futuristic view (albeit a slight extrapolation of today's government biological interventions) within a world destroyed by climate change.

Alicia Vikander, Elizabeth Olsen and Himesh Patel star in Fleur Fortune"s Debut Film (PRESENTED AT TIFF WORLD PREMIERE). Follows a couple (Olsen and Patel) who faces scrutiny by an evaluator (Alicia Vikander playing the character Virginia) over seven days to determine their fitness for childbearing in an utopian society (that has created a parallel world for itself).

The evaluator, Virginia (Alicia Vikander) represents a world where parenthood is strictly controlled, and the couple's seven-day assessment for the right to have a child unravels into a psychological nightmare. The film is commanded by Vikander, by interrogating the couple with questions and presenting stressful scenarios, displays a remarkable range of emotional and physical prowess, offering a powerful & malleable performance, from analytical government official to precocious child.

Written by: John Donnelly, Nell Garfath Cox (as Mrs and Mr Thomas), Dave Thomas (as Mrs and Mr Thomas).
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