2021 · sci-fi · thriller · drama
Settlers
Directed by Wyatt Rockefeller1h 44m2021
Remmy and her parents, refugees from Earth, have found peace on the Martian outskirts until strangers appear in the hills beyond their farm. Told as a triptych, the film follows Remmy as she struggles to survive in an uneasy landscape.
Our read: Settlers (2021) reads as a heavy, measured, inventive sci-fi · thriller · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, measured, measured sci-fi / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- measured
- intense
- bleak
- cold
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