100
RogerEbert.com by Scout Tafoya
One of the greatest science and moral fiction movies ever made.
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- Poland
- 1988
- · 165m
Director
Andrzej Żuławski
Cast
Andrzej Seweryn,
Grażyna Dyląg,
Jerzy Trela,
Waldemar Kownacki,
Iwona Bielska,
Jerzy Grałek
Genre
Adventure,
Drama,
Fantasy,
Science Fiction
In the far future, a group of dissident astronauts crash land on an unnamed Earth-like planet after escaping from a degraded and vaguely dystopian Earth. There, they find freedom and start a new civilization. The children born on this planet age much faster than on Earth and quickly devolve into tribalism.
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What are critics saying?
80
The New Yorker by Richard Brody
It’s among the most visually extravagant films ever made.
75
Slant Magazine
It becomes a bleak comic spit into the face of organized religion, organized society, and even organized narrative.
75
Slant Magazine by Jeremiah Kipp
It becomes a bleak comic spit into the face of organized religion, organized society, and even organized narrative.
60
The New York Times by A.O. Scott
A certain amount of work is required to stitch together a sense of the plot, but as is often the case in Zulawski’s films, the story is less the point than an excuse, a loose temporal conceit holding together flights of visual invention, verbal extravagance and male and female nudity.
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