SnoReptilePlenty Memorable, crazy movie

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Plustown A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

peterdempster The very definition of unresolved tedium. This movie is definitely not for everyone. It stutters along painfully at an incredibly slow pace showing overly long scenes of water and various closeups of the characters. The acting is mediocre at best and the sound score monotonous. The women have totally unexplained deformities and if you are hoping for any kind of resolution at the end of the film, you are not going to find it. However, the cinematography is fairly good, depicting underwater vistas and the remoteness of the location. If you are looking for a gripping, action packed movie, I would suggest looking elsewhere.

Michael Ledo Contains THE plot spoiler (not ending or plot parts) The title coupled with the film description gives most of the plot away. I had it figured out a few short minutes into the film which was slow moving and boring. Nicolas (Max Brebant) is one of several boys his age (9-11?) constituting the male population of this French speaking community. All the women are about late 20's and pretty much look and dress alike, wearing their hair straight back in cult-like fashion.The film trudges on as I discovered exactly what I suspected after the first two minutes....and here is your one word PLOT SPOILER...seahorses. This was a Spartan isolated community, yet had computer technology and electricity and my head was about to explode on that aspect. This is an artsy film that didn't make it for me, because I couldn't figure out the message or theme if there was one. And artsy films require either a decent theme or a lot of cleavage for me to like them. This had neither.This is another "emperor has no clothes film." People say they like it simply to look cool and intellectual.Guide: distant nudity....I think. Not one Kip Addotta joke.

rune-andresen This is not a movie for everyone - or at least - you should be aware that it's not a Sci-fi nor a horror movie as we know them - before selecting this movie. The movie is beautiful - it is just like meditation at the sea. I guarantee lower blood pressure after watching this move. I loved it. (It almost reminds me to the universe of Myst - the old computer game from the 90s- where you are totally alone on a abandoned Island and you don't know how you got there.)Furthermore - the move makes you think. It may be a far future situation or it may be a dream of a child. As children we can have fantasies or anxiety for loosing our parents - or we may misenterpret a situation as dangerous etc. this movie may be a dream or a post apocalyptic movie. Either way - this movie works, but I understand that some people don't like it. This is like entering a gallery. Sometimes you are not in the mood. But, if you are - this movie is unique and genial.A true artwork.

Argemaluco The first adjective which came to my mind after watching Évolution was "lovecraftian"... but not in the sense of cosmic monsters or creatures with tentacles (even though there's something of that, because the marine stars which show up at the beach create a hypnotic fascination in the main character), but in the atmosphere of isolation and misanthropy which insinuates grotesque secrets behind the placid tranquility of a coastal community. Why are there only women and children? Apparently, the kids are ill, and the women occupy a dual function as mothers and nurses. Where was the corpse taken? And what do women do at night, while the "patients" are sleeping? Some of those questions are answered during the film, while other ones are left up in the air in order to reinforce a frightening mystery which provokes a strong emotional answer due to its exotic origin. And when the main character insists on his "investigation" of the missing corpse, we realize that the natural cycles of the island (if it's really an island) obey to rules which are outside our comprehension. As I previously said: lovecraftian. Despite being quite a short film (barely 80 minutes, including credits), director Lucile Hadžihalilović allows the story to breathe and find its own rhythm. The dialogues are sporadic and appropriately oblique; the camera rarely moves, and it frequently contemplates long scenes of natural beauty which invite us to reflect and digest the things we have seen. In other words, the narrative feels sure and efficient, lacking of any artificial conflict or forced drama; things are like they are, and co- screenwriters Hadžihalilović and Alante Kavaite don't judge the events they portray or the characters' unusual practices. In the leading role, the kid Max Brebant stands out due to his naturalness and total lack of histrionic affectations, while Roxane Duran also makes a very good work as the mother/nurse with an uncertain motivation to get interested in the main character's case. It's difficult to establish a specific niche for a movie like Évolution. There are no shocks, or gore, or masked killers, while its connections to author H.P. Lovecraft's work are limited to its disturbing atmosphere, so don't expect colors from outer space or lost cities in the Pacific; just an island with many secrets, which might be better not to know about. If that's not horror, I don't know what it is.