Vesper (film)
A year ago Vesper's mother left to be part of a group of people called The Pilgrims.One day a citadel ship crashes nearby and Vesper finds a young woman survivor, Camellia.Camellia promises to take Vesper and her father to the citadel if they can find the other passenger of the ship, a man named Elias.Vesper uses seeds stolen from her uncle Jonas' farm for an experiment involving samples from the synthetic Camellia.The website's consensus reads: "More visually impressive than narratively engaging, Vesper rewards patient viewers with immersive world-building and intelligent ideas."[4] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 70 out of 100, based on 10 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[17] Olivier Delcroix, writing for Le Figaro, found the film "the result of a string of carefully thought through choices, a very beautiful immersive movie that resembles a strange sci-fi fable, fascinating and otherworldly."[18] Philippe Guedj of Le Point found "influences from Cronenberg, Giger, Jim Henson or even Miyazaki", with "the movie zigzagging between a Grimm fairytale mood and a hyperreal painting of a medieval future."[19] Ben Croll of TheWrap deemed the film "something wholly unique—at once modern and timeless, nostalgic for a genre only just created, already pining for images freshly cast up on screen."[21] Guy Lodge of Variety described it as "a sci-fi film fascinated by earthly survival, not sleek, state-of-the-art spectacle—though it often dazzles just the same", and praised "the sophisticated technical realization of this desperate dystopia...achieved on a budget presumably a fraction of that granted to most franchised Hollywood fantasies".[22] Writing for New Scientist, Davide Abbatescianni labelled it an "exquisite dystopian sci-fi" with "a Brothers Grimm edge" as well as "a good example of what European science fiction has to offer.