https://fictionmachine.com/2020/11/17/review-aniara-2018/ Deconstructing the machinery of cinema. Fri, 26 Nov 2021 06:20:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ https://fictionmachine.com/2020/11/17/review-aniara-2018/comment-page-1/#comment-14682 Fri, 26 Nov 2021 06:20:22 +0000 http://fictionmachine.com/?p=8121#comment-14682 […] It is a fairly common science fiction story for a starship’s engines to misfire or otherwise malfunction, leading its crew into a race against time to avoid drifting endlessly into the void. Aniara, a Swedish feature curiously based on a poem, takes the step other stories like this fear to tread: what if that race against time fails? What happens once your starship does drift hopelessly beyond rescue? Directors Kågerman and Lilja don’t pull any punches in this bleak, unflinching, and jaw-dropping depiction of a micro-society driven to collapse. It has the feel of those grand, ideas-focused SF films of the 1960s and 1970s, and absolutely deserves a broader international audience than it received. (review) […]

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