An interesting indie exercise, more artsy than I often like, but in this case it’s effective—think more Tarkovsky than “Brooklyn hipster with a video recorder”. There are a lot of long, slow shots and moments without any dialogue, but it all works naturalistically.
The entire movie is essentially a series of monologues from three generations of solitary Mars colonists (and the only three characters in the movie): a member of the first wave of colonists, a son of his who is the only survivor of an expedition back to a ruined, desolate earth, and his granddaughter, back on Mars. I unfortunately was distracted with some work for the first part of the movie before I realized there was something kind of interesting happening on my TV, but the somber first person accounts of a future history were engaging and the stark cinematography was beautiful in an amateur, indie kind of way.
I’m going to have to check it out again and really watch it from the beginning. I liked it.