Vivarium

2020 • 97 minutes

About this movie

On their search for the perfect home, Gemma (Imogen Poots) and Tom (Jesse Eisenberg) visit a new house in a labyrinthine suburban neighbourhood. When they attempt to leave, each road mysteriously takes them back to where they started, leading them on a mind-bending trip, trapped in a surreal nightmare.

Ratings and reviews

So the film is worth watching if you're curious and have the spare time. But be warned - it really does amount to a whole lot of nothing, as you suspect halfway through the film when so many of questions are ignored. It could have been so much more, there are so many avenues unexplored. If anything it should be inspiring for newbies to have a go at screenwriting. Because if someones happy to allocate budget to this film you'd only have to spend another week bulking out a deeper story line with a little more imagination to come up with something good. Nothing more than a below average Monday night watch.

Unrelatable paper-thin allegory about the "horror" of raising a child. I don't know what went wrong in the writer's lives to make them hate bring a parent so much. Perhaps they haven't had kids, that would be the only explanation for this horrendous attempt at commentary on modern life. Seriously, this is a sociopath's idea of what being a parent is like.

I'd give this 2 stars as it does have 2 stars acting in it. Its just a shame that they wasted a portion of their lives in the production of such an abysmal movie. Hopefully they will find each other on the set of a quality picture in the future. If you want to see a decent indie movie starring Jesse Eisenberg then watch Night Moves. Not this. Don't say you weren't warned before you spent your hard earned on this.