Home » Archives » Everything Beautiful Is Far Away 4 Votes ( 3. 75) ( The Orchard) Release Date: December 5, 2017 Director: Pete Ohs, Andrea Sisson Writer: Pete Ohs Cast: Julia Garner, Joseph Cross, C. S. Lee, Jillian Mayer Plot: A guy, a girl, and a robothead hike across a desert planet in search of a mythical lake. Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi IMDb: tt3605266 Trailer December 09, 2017 blog comments powered by Disqus
Whether they find the lake or not is only the most overt denouement of the story, but the script by writer/co-director Pete Ohs seems to want to say so much more about the value of real versus artificial friendships and how our differences complement each other, and rather than come to any conclusion those themes are just kind of… there. But he and his crew have wrung every cent out of a very low budget so the film has a sense of scope and good cinematography, but while it looks crisp and at times beautiful, "Everything Beautiful is Far Away" just needs more meat on its narrative bones. More in DVD Reviews DVD Reviews The Outpost Review: A searing, scary, fleet-footed film Rod Lurie has made some of the most insightful political/military dramas of our time ("The Contender",... DVD Reviews The Girls of Summer Review: The film we need right now Beautifully photographed and smoothly paced... DVD Reviews Disc Reviews: Twin Peaks, E-Street, Last Action Heroes In what will be pure ice cream to action fans, Oliver Harper's engrossing "In Search of...
It's an ordered, routine existence until they come across a young woman lying in the desert, half dead from thirst. At first Rola (Julia Garner) wants nothing to do with the weird young traveller and his robot head, letting them nurse her back to health before high tailing it. But Lenert follows her, finally convincing Rola she doesn't have the necessary survival skills to make it on her own and that they should team up. Rola is looking for the fabled lake that's supposed to exist somewhere in the desert, and as Lenert joins her on her quest and she on his, they become friends in classic mismatched pair fashion. "Everything Beautiful is Far Away" has a slow, languorous pace many will find hard to stick with, especially if you're expecting the high tech trappings of a science fiction film. There's a neat little 80s robotic soundtrack that occasionally breaks through as if to remind you it's not "Lawrence of Arabia", but when all's said and done the story doesn't really resolve anything, it just ends.