2009 · sci-fi · adventure · space
The Inhabited Island
Directed by Fyodor Bondarchuk1h 55m2009
On the threshold of 22nd century, furrowing the space, protagonist from the Free Search Group makes emergency landing on an unknown planet where he must stay. People who are living on this planet have remained at the stone level of the 20th century, with its social problems, miserable ecology and shaky world..
Our read: The Inhabited Island (2009) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive sci-fi · adventure · space entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured sci-fi / adventure, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- inventive
- twisty
- epic-stakes
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