Spaceship
Directed by Alex Taylor
Starring Alexa Davies, Antti Reini, Steven Elder, Harry Jarvis and Lucian Charles Collier
When his daughter goes missing in an apparent alien abduction, Gabriel's search takes him dangerously close to her strange group of so-called friends. But the further he goes inside their computer game and fantasy-obsessed world, the more he realises that he must confront his own difficult memories if he is to get his daughter back.
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Reviews
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★★★★ review by robbiez666 on Letterboxd
Spaceship removes all the barriers of social norms, allowing the protagonists to revel in a hazy, dreamlike, kaleidoscopic alternative reality.
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★★★★½ review by Ben Buckingham on Letterboxd
Olde weird England of the future. Fortean living in a terminal reality.
Taking a dash of Peter Watkins, Derek Jarman, Harmony Korinne, & Jonathan Glazer, Spaceship rests solidly in the weird old England sub-genre that has bubbled away in the margins of its cinema and TV forever. Here, the old fuses and evolves through the modern weird, being a tale of youth and destiny, of love in a broken-down world, haunted and enlivened by forteana. Strangely shattering, entombed within delusion and hope (two sides of the same coin), Spaceship is exquisite. The bizarre dreams of sub-cultures, of the bonds that tie all of us together as humans, the most bizarre phenomena of all. Beautifully shot, beautifully performed, beautifully scored, beautifully linked together like a necklace of exquisite charms. Mytho-poetic in a way few films achieve, and utilising an emotive logic rather than narrative logic, Spaceship shows how clichés can be transformed and re-invigorated to give the sense of taking flight with each drop of recognisable information being a beat of the wings to elevate the audience.
Just let it swim through you and know that it marks a point in space and time.
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★★★★ review by Fox Cub Films on Letterboxd
If most films are a novel, this is poetry. Organic, captivating and completely original. A brilliant and inspiring debut.
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★★★★★ review by archietheslayer on Letterboxd
Finally a British film that isn't bleak and depressing! I loved it.
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