Twenty-five years after the Earth’s environmental collapse, Mother (Tilda Swinton), Father (Michael Shannon) and Son (George MacKay) cling to a sense of normalcy while confined to a palatial bunker. But when a Girl (Moses Ingram) turns up at their doorstep, with her own past and perspective, the family’s blind optimism begins to unravel.
The toweringly ambitious first narrative feature film from revered documentarian Joshua Oppenheimer (The Act of Killing, The Look of Silence) tackles similarly grand and thought-provoking thematic terrain, as the apocalypse is viewed through the musically-charged prism of the interpersonal relationships of a bunker family.