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Paul Mescal

Saoirse Ronan

Aaron Pierre

Jordan Chodziesner

William Freeman

Jalen Ong

Patrick Williams

David Woods

Yesse Spence

Shamita Sivabalan

Gavin Coleman

Shannon Berry

Nell Feeney

Trevor Major

Jasper Bagg

Sancia Robinson

Goran D. Kleut

Travis McMahon

Alessandro Guerrera

Tony Ghosthawk

Chris Fagan

Nick Downing

George George

Peter Sciberras

Emile Sherman

Garth Davis

Iain Canning

Samantha Lang

Kerry Kohansky-Roberts

Robert Mackenzie

Rachel Nott

Rui Li

Jason Hawkins

Oliver Coates

Rob Stagg

Will Pearce

Christophe Pacaud

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Selena Pertzel

Arlo Markantonatos

Paul Chadeisson

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Kirsty McGregor

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Hayden Stewart

Patrice Vermette

Michael Bell

Aaron Morrison

Leigh Welsh

Benjamin Donnelly

Deak Ferrand

Octavia Mansfield Schweitzer

Jake Bennett

Mátyás Erdély

Matthew Campbell

Peta Dunstall

Ginny Salmon

Eddie Thorne

Andrew Kattie

Philli Anderson

Jemma Burns

Bonnie Moir

Jane Griffin

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Dawn Olmstead

Kate Glover

Scott Gray

Park Jiha

Róbert Taller

Marty Smith

Elise Lockwood

James Ashton

Matthew Lee

David Levine

Robert Walak

Jessica Meier

Colleen Clarke

Duncan Campbell

Guy Strachan

John Erasmus

Nick McFarlane

Olivia Aquilina

Catherine Bridekirk

Adrian Medhurst

Glenn Newnham

Graeme Stewart

Steve Golin

Libby Sharpe

Jonathan Schwartz

Manuel São Bento

FULL SPOILER-FREE REVIEW @ https://fandomwire.com/foe-bfi-london-film-festival-review-one-of-the-messiest-scripts-of-the-year/

"Foe presents one of the messiest screenplays of the year, filled with incessant, unnecessary explanations through numerous narrative and visual methods, abruptly confusing time shifts, absurdly devoid of any sort of impact, and a strange message, to say the least, about the superiority of AI in human intimate relationships.

At just under two hours, it manages to slowly drag itself to a multiple-ending conclusion, none capable of delivering any relevant information that wasn't already given beforehand.

The cast does the best they can, but it's way too far from enough to rescue a movie doomed to leave its audience underwhelmed."

Rating: D-

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Anyone think this reminds them of a poor relation of "Interstellar"? "Hen" (Saoirse Ronan) lives on her remote family farm with husband "Junior" (Paul Mescal). You get the impression it's a pretty mundane existence and maybe not have been the strongest of relationships when a stranger in what looks like an old De Lorean arrives. It turns out that "Terrance" (Aaron Pierre) has come from the supra-governmental agency that's in charge of populating space - yep, the planet is on it's last legs - and that "Junior" has been selected to go live upstairs leaving is wife behind. No chance says "Junior", no choice says "Terrance" but there is some silver lining for "Hen". They will make her a carbon copy of her husband to "keep her company" whilst he is away. To that end, their visitor must remain for a few weeks to gather information on every intimate detail of their lives together so that "Junior 2" can be as authentic as possible. Now we don't actually know this, but it's safe to assume that somewhere in the ensuing proceedings, there is a body swap otherwise the rather dreary and drawn out denouement would make even less sense that it actually does. Is this suppose to be a crit on the nature of human relationships, or of the human psyche? If you went to bed at night and awoke to an identical partner that had been swapped in the night, would you even know? That's the problem. It's a complete non-story that limbers towards it's conclusion without really engaging on any level. That said, man-of-the-moment Mescal does turn in an emotional performance at times, but Ronan is really rather wasted here and the thinly developed characterisation of "Terrance" just further consigns this to the doldrums of what looks a short story laggardly dragged out for all but two hours. It's a slow and rather listless film for the most part and contains nothing new. Disappointing.

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The Making of Foe

Foe director Garth Davis attends the film's red carpet at the BFI London Film Festival

GARTH DAVIS on directing Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal - FOE Q&A | Film Independent Presents

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Garth Davis on Foe

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