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Atlantis

Play trailer 1:21 Poster for Atlantis Released Jan 22, 2021 1h 46m Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
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A prize-winner at the Venice Film Festival and Ukraine's official selection for the 2021 Academy Awards, Atlantis is a gorgeous and visionary sci-fi drama. Eastern Ukraine, 2025. A desert unsuitable for human habitation. Water is a dear commodity brought by trucks. A Wall is being build-up on the border. Sergiy, a former soldier, is having trouble adapting to his new reality. He meets Katya while on the Black Tulip mission dedicated to exhuming the past. Together, they try to return to some sort of normal life in which they are also allowed to fall in love again.

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With powerful imagery that's vividly affecting, Atlantis explores the chilling horrors of war with Herzogian existentialism while never losing sight of human perseverance.

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Kathleen Sachs Chicago Reader Naturally the film has emerged as one to watch during the present-day turbulence; such timeliness is eclipsed only by its visual splendor, further reflecting the ability of art to transmit by way of form in addition to content. Apr 8, 2022 Full Review Leslie Felperin Guardian Instead of being numbingly dreary and depressing, given the economically depressed, horrifically polluted and landmine-strewn region, Atlantis is strangely upbeat, oddly hopeful even. Rated: 3/5 May 3, 2021 Full Review Anna Smith Deadline Hollywood Daily Tonally, there are shades of Werner Herzog. But Vasyanovych's tone is distinct; not to mention timely. The crisis he depicts can be as dull as it is dramatic, making Atlantis an eerily topical watch. Feb 9, 2021 Full Review Alessandra Rangel InSession Film Atlantis works as a cautionary tale. Its haunting camera work offers too many scenes that invite reflection on the consequences of war and the way that its desolation cannot be avoided. Rated: A Mar 21, 2023 Full Review Vadim Rizov Filmmaker Magazine It was nice to see an unrepentantly arty, tableau-based fest film that reminded me why the sub-genre was important in the first place. Dec 2, 2022 Full Review Carmen Paddock One Room With A View Oblique, unaggressively bold, and deeply hopeful. Vasyanovych's unique directorial and cinematographic vision does not undersell destruction on personal, national, or environmental levels, but its thesis insists on humanity's self-redemption. Rated: 4/5 May 10, 2021 Full Review Read all reviews

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Patrick C A hard movie to watch, it's slow but gripping, bleak and aesthetically powerful. Unsettling, bleak and prophetic. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 11/09/23 Full Review Ev Intense, minimalist, and bleak. Features long and beautiful shots throughout. Ultimately there is a tiny glimmer of hope Rated 4 out of 5 stars 07/05/23 Full Review dick n I did not mind the movie being "slow" it was a well made slow burner and my friends and i all enjoyed it! Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Well made but a bit slow movie. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Audience Member Nice cinematography but movie is slow and has many repetitive sequences. Not quite what I expected in an award-winning film... Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review brent m Though singularly artistic in its vision and earnestly noble in its intent, this Ukrainian offering about life in the near future after the end of its protracted conflict with Russia struggles to find its traction, endlessly meandering and relying on far too many pregnant pauses and excessively long, lingering shots to make the film work. This visual attempt at creating a sense of bleak yet profound insight, unfortunately, fails to successfully conceal what is essentially a thin underlying narrative about a troubled former soldier seeking to adjust to life in peacetime in a land that has been morally and environmentally decimated by the conflict. It also doesn't help that there's virtually no back story about the protagonist and little information about the war, which may leave many viewers out in the cold as to what they're watching. What's more, it's puzzling that this release has been misleadingly labeled a sci-fi tale when, in fact, it's more properly characterized as a piece of dystopian political speculation, one that metaphorically seeks to echo the fate of the fabled lost continent. In all, the picture is certainly laudable for its valiant effort at making a weighty statement, but, regrettably, its pacing and overall execution weigh it down, trying viewer patience rather than offering meaningful enlightenment. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis A prize-winner at the Venice Film Festival and Ukraine's official selection for the 2021 Academy Awards, Atlantis is a gorgeous and visionary sci-fi drama. Eastern Ukraine, 2025. A desert unsuitable for human habitation. Water is a dear commodity brought by trucks. A Wall is being build-up on the border. Sergiy, a former soldier, is having trouble adapting to his new reality. He meets Katya while on the Black Tulip mission dedicated to exhuming the past. Together, they try to return to some sort of normal life in which they are also allowed to fall in love again.
Director
Valentyn Vasyanovych
Producer
Iya Myslytska, Valentyn Vasyanovych, Vladimir Yatsenko
Screenwriter
Valentyn Vasyanovych
Distributor
Grasshopper Film
Production Co
Doco Digital, Garmata Film Production, Ukrainian State Film Agency, Limelite
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Ukrainian
Release Date (Theaters)
Jan 22, 2021, Limited
Runtime
1h 46m
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