Cinema: The Dog Stars
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Even at the age of eighty-eight, Englishman Ridley Scott has not left the director's chair. His creative ferocity could easily be interpreted as an old man's whim. However, with the post-apocalyptic sci-fi film Looking to the Stars, he proves that he is still in the right place. This time, he moderated the footage and overall pomposity and brought an honest, ordinary story.
Adaptation of a best seller by Peter Heller, this new film by Ridley Scott, with Jacob Elordi as a global post-pandemic survivor, plunges us into full American survivalism, mixing complacent violence and philosophySince when Ridley Scott became a scourge of 7th art? Perhaps the worm was in the fruit from the beginning, impressive inaugural trilogy (The Duelists, Alien, Blade Runner) whose style/design still masked morbid obsession and advertisin…
‘The Dog Stars’ Review: Ridley Scott Finds Glimmers Of Hope In A Surprisingly Soulful Post-Apocalyptic Drama
Post-apocalyptic movies usually obsess over survival mechanics: where to find food, how to defend a compound, who to trust, and how quickly civilization collapses once resources disappear. Ridley Scott’s “The Dog Stars” contains all the familiar genre elements—guns, marauders, abandoned cities, scavenged supplies, and humanity reduced to isolated pockets—but Scott seems surprisingly uninterested in reinventing the form. Instead, he pares it down…
Ridley Scott is (already) back with his post-apocalyptic film The Dog Stars, which disappoints by his lack of incarnation. Ridley Scott is still as prolific. After the disappointment Gladiator 2, he invests the genre of post-apocalyptic with The Dog Stars, carried by the muddy moat of Jacob Elordi. And facing this programmatic tote in [...]
In a post-apocalyptic world, the few survivors of a pandemic have to face violence. Inventive tribute to the seventh art or assuming recycling, our critics are shared.
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