This post-apocalyptic art-drama follows a bedraggled man’s mundane tasks of survival amidst the barren British countryside, while he pines for the lost love of his youth.

Director Connor O’Hara is clearly influenced by The Road*, and gives a nod to Gareth Edwards’ Monsters in his use of subtle CGI to hint at the cause of the catastrophe. Certainly well shot, and framed to take full advantage of the beautiful landscapes, the morose and obtuse voice-over delivers little insight or eloquence.

While the emotional climax of the film feels somewhat silly, it’s followed by a grisly twist that is neatly executed and punctuates the piece with an existential question mark.

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*The Road is a 2006 novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy. It is a post-apocalyptic tale of a journey of a father and his young son over a period of several months, across a landscape blasted by an unspecified cataclysm that has destroyed most of civilization and, in the intervening years, almost all life on Earth. The novel was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 2006. The book was adapted to a film of the same name in 2009, directed by John Hillcoat.

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