Atlantis

Name: Atlantis
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama
Released: January 22, 2021
Duration: 108 min
Rating: 85
Cast: Andriy Rymaruk, Aykhan Hajibayli, Igor Tytarchuk, Kateryna Popravka, Lily Hyde

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Grasshopper Film | Release Date: January 22, 2021 | NR

Starring: Andriy Rymaruk, Aykhan Hajibayli, Igor Tytarchuk, Kateryna Popravka, Lily Hyde, Liudmyla Bileka, Philip Paul Peter Hudson, Sergiy Komishon, Sergiy Livitsky, Vasyl Antoniak, Vitaliy Sudarkov

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Ukraine’s official selection for the 2021 Academy Awards.

Summary: 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 someEastern 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.… Expand

Director: Valentyn Vasyanovych

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Drama

Rating: NR

Runtime: 108 min

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IndieWire Ryan Lattanzio

Jan 22, 2021

Atlantis is a political howl from the soul about a decaying Europe. But its cold, violent exterior turns out to be a bleak disguise for what is an unexpectedly sweet love story at its molten core. Read full review

Robert Abele

Jan 22, 2021

What exists in this visualized afterward may not look like anything, but that’s why we’re fortunate to have artists like Vasyanovych to show us what’s dazzling, strange, tragic, comic, touching and eventually optimistic about the way forward. Read full review

Joe Morgenstern

Jan 22, 2021

Mr. Vasyanovych’s approach is literally and figuratively visionary. Read full review

Deborah Young

Mar 23, 2020

[A] dark yet humanly luminous story. Read full review

Glenn Kenny

Jan 21, 2021

Vasyanovych and his actors manage to make this parable both heartening and stupefying. Read full review

Dennis Harvey

Mar 23, 2020

As cinematographer and editor in addition to writer, director and producer, Vasyanovych is very much in charge of a vision whose aesthetics are rigidly controlled. The ironically titled “Atlantis” may well alienate some viewers with its austerity, but those willing to tough it out will feel rewarded. Read full review

David Robb

Mar 23, 2020

The film’s use of scale to drive home the absurdity of its characters’ actions sometimes calls to mind Werner Herzog’s tragicomic existentialism, as well as early silent cinema. Read full review

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gbferreira

Apr 2, 2021

An amazing movie, with a wonderful cinematography, and a great screenplay, that leads to many reflections relating to war and its consequences.

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yoshibk

Jul 15, 2021

A brutal and sad film about post war crisis. It takes place in a dystopian reality but it feels reminiscent of eastern europe's war history. While the film is very skeletal visually, its authenticity and attention to detail keeps bringing emotion with every shot. The grey landscapes andA brutal and sad film about post war crisis. It takes place in a dystopian reality but it feels reminiscent of eastern europe's war history. While the film is very skeletal visually, its authenticity and attention to detail keeps bringing emotion with every shot. The grey landscapes and heavy machinery portray perfectly how brutal it is to be working class in a country with no hope, and they match perfectly with our main character's attitude towards life, an attitude of hard labor with little to no reward, of lost desire and broken dreams. Watch this film if you want to feel challenged and moved at the same time, I personally love the very simple and steady cinematography, because it leaves so much room for characters and locations to move us to our core. It's a beautifully shot, beautifully produced slow burner about the common folk in desperate times, definitely a must watch.… Expand

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bertobellamy

May 5, 2021

"It's like digging up your history."

I think 'Atlantis' has been mistakenly labeled as dystopian sci-fi, undoubtedly because of its post-apocalyptic setting. Still, the desolation it projects is enough to make you feel depressed about the future. This film is not for everyone. The static"It's like digging up your history."

I think 'Atlantis' has been mistakenly labeled as dystopian sci-fi, undoubtedly because of its post-apocalyptic setting. Still, the desolation it projects is enough to make you feel depressed about the future. This film is not for everyone. The static and very long wide shots may feel overused, and there's little character development. Still, there's a magnificent dreary feeling that'll follow you for some time after watching it.

The horrors of war are genuinely felt on 'Atlantis.'… Expand

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Brent_Marchant

Jan 29, 2021

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 andThough 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.… Expand

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