Having kids and buying a house become the stuff of nightmares in Lorcan Finnegan’s black comedy, starring Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg, Wed 26 Feb 2020 19.45 GMT In its way, this film is an emblem of postnatal depression and simple loneliness. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 26, 2020. (Her job subliminally suggests that having a child is far from out of the question, although it is not explicitly raised, and parenthood is still something for the future.) They are always missing something. I never expected what was going to happen in this movie, so I was left speechless all the way throughout until the very end. The whole film is carried almost exclusively by Poots and Eisenberg who are both first rate. Don't often feel moved to write a review and usually give everything five stars mainly because I admire anybody putting in the effort to write a book or make a film. Debuting today on VOD from Saban Films, VIVARIUM stars Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg as Gemma and Tom, a young couple seeking a new home who are lured to a planned community called Yonder. COMING SOON! Its just trash!?" If so I am going to make a sequel to this and it will just be a blank blue screen for 90 mins. Talking Heads sang: “How did I get here? © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. Oh, here’s some money. For Gemma and Tom, the hilariousness soon wears off and they can’t wait to get away – but it isn’t as easy as that. This film really deserves five stars for excellence and a novel conception. •Vivarium is released on streaming on 27 March. A little , bizarre sci fi thriller ! On the one hand, Finnegan’s existential creeper feels very much of the moment on the other, does that sound like anything you’d like to watch right now? Now director Lorcan Finnegan and his co-screenwriter Garret Shanley tap into this residential nightmare for a comic horror parable, which I found highly entertaining and bizarre. Last modified on Thu 26 Mar 2020 09.09 GMT, There’s a type of film you could call burbstruck: horrified and yet sort of fascinated by the blank, bland, affectless sprawl of the suburbs in all their conformity and philistinism. She manages to carry the film through its patchier sequences – though there’s nothing she can do when it comes to the ending. and some fancy person is like, "OMG this is ART!". Video availability outside of United States varies. Vivarium, as explained by the director, talks about two things. I was hoping there’d be some explanation but it never came. Gemma is a nursery-school teacher who loves her job and loves the kids. Usually these movies are intriguing and have interesting premises, but the actual movies leave me cold.