Vesper

Directors didn't do a great job at most important part for these type of movies : the portray of post apocalyptic world! OK, there are some nice shots and the message that everyone understands but it still falls short on the decay. Where are the ruins of older civilizations? There aren't any, as much as viewers have no idea which year it actually is, a major plot hole. So for most part of the movie the goal is to reach citadel which you ultimately won't see even though you waited almost 120 mins for it. That describes this movie the best. You just wait for it to develop into something better and more interesting but it just keeps a flat line.

For a low budget indie film, the sets and visuals are really impressive, as was the cinematography and score. It's just too bad the long and slowly paced runtime felt dull, tedious and underwhelming. More substance was needed to expand on many of the visuals, at least the important ones. If only half the effort that went into the stunning visuals and details in every scene went into the screenplay, this could've been a cult classic sci-fi. Instead, it's more of a low-fi adventure spectacle, where the viewer is left clueless - for one example, why the wandering pilgrims hide their faces, collect scrap, or even built a tower in the middle of nowhere. It isn't good enough to have a pretty film with so little substantiated commentary as to the "why". I was left very unsatisfied and wanted much more. Even for the little suspense it did have, it all could've been trimmed down to a perfect little short sci-fi film. Sadly, it's a win in the visual department but a loss in the storytelling, and that's too bad considering even the performances were compelling and convincing.

A very watchable dystopian movie from Bruno Samper and Kristina Buozyte. The most interesting aspect of the film is that either the two directors who also wrote the script of the film or the production designer Henrijs Deicmanis and Raimondas Dicius were heavily influenced by Miyazaki. The characters in the movie look like they came straight out of the obvious Miyazaki anime. This is not a bad criticism, it is a choice that fits the texture of the film. The duo, who had previously filmed Vanishing Waves (2012) together, spent six years on this project and decided at the last minute to shoot the movie in English in order to attract more viewers. Cinematographer Feliksas Abrukauskas drew on paintings by Johannes Vermeer and Rembrandt for inspiration. Most of the movie was completed without using the green/blue screen, but the drone used in some scenes was helped by cgi... Because the drone used on the set made a lot of noise and the actors and actresses could not focus on their roles.

Was waiting for this movie and paid to see it. It's exceptionally well done with such a low budget and resources. Organic, natural, dirty, slimy, not, polished, sometimes too disturbing and brutal maybe, not "hollywood",no cheap pop corn eating action stuff. The actors were fantastic, the girl is a star! Also the drone "actor" gave it unusual playfulness. The story itself was too emotional and heavy for me. Everyone is in survival mode. Lot's of fear and desperation around. I felt tense and went out with unease. Same uneasy feeling like in K. Buozyte first movie "The Collectress". Not recommending for younger kids.

I wait for the first movie featuring a toddler saving not only Mother Earth but the whole universe by engineering some superapparatus making all things wrong right... Vesper got some nice visuals but the story provided is rather dull, dragging on and not very entertaining or suspenseful. The reason to make a movie like Vesper is, I guess, that like the wave of zombie movies a couple of years ago, now it's the wave of stories about the breakdown of Earth's ecosystem and human society, but without the entertaining joyride and madness a la Mad Max. In past times we would get some grown man or woman with some decent fighting skills to do the job of saving the world, a community or just getting rid of a bunch of bad guys but now we must watch someone in her early teens (who in reality would never reach that age the scenario given) to be the main character - and that's in my opinion the audience who may like Vesper: if you are still in the age to run around in the Fridays For Future crowd, you may like this flick and story more. Anyway, reminds me of movies like The City of Ember and The City of Lost Children but without the great production value and fantastic world building and does not reach the quality of storytelling. Vesper: not too bad or a complete fail but nothing really good or remarkable.