| Duration: | 105 min |
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| Genres: | Sci-Fi |
LANDSCAPE WITH INVISIBLE HAND -- filmmaker Cory Hinley's adaptation of M.T.
Anderson's 2017 young-adult sci-fi novel -- takes place in the near future (the mid 2030s), five years after the Vuvv, an advanced alien species, have taken over Earth.
Unlike the creatures in other, deadlier cinematic alien invasions, these boxy, asexual peach-colored extraterrestrials are more like bureaucratic and entrepreneurial overlords.
They create a heavily divided class system in which most humans have no jobs and even those who once had elite positions now work in service to the aliens.
When high school artist Adam Campbell (Asante Blackk) meets funny, unhoused classmate Chloe (Kylie Rogers), he invites her family (she has a dad and older brother) first to dinner and then to live in his family's basement -- much to his single mother Beth's (Tiffany Haddish) chagrin.
As the teens begin to fall for each other, Chloe suggests they wear their alien-produced devices to broadcast their courtship -- something the Vuvv are willing to pay to watch, since romantic love doesn't exist in their society.
The pay-per-view, reality show-style romance is good, even lucrative, for a while, but once the love story starts to cool, the broadcast and their livelihoods deteriorate, leading to unexpected consequences.
