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FOE is coming to Prime Video January 5. Go behind the scenes of the ground-breaking film with Paul Mescal, Saoirse Ronan, Aaron Pierre and director Garth Davis. Hen & Junior’s quiet life is thrown into turmoil when an uninvited stranger shows up at their door with a startling proposal. Starring Saoirse Ronan, Paul Mescal, and Aaron Pierre, Foe’s mesmerizing imagery and persistent questions about the nature of humanity (and artificial humanity) bring the not-too-distant future to luminous life.
Out on Prime Video 1/5/2024
Transcript
00:00 I need to have an intimate understanding of your marriage.
00:04 The good and the bad.
00:08 It's between you and me.
00:10 The first thing that jumped out to me when I read the script was the characters at the center of the movie.
00:16 It's about a marriage and trying to rediscover each other.
00:20 Junior and Hen have created this life together that just consists of the two of them.
00:25 I think that started to take its toll, the monotony of that life.
00:29 The kind of break in routine is the arrival of Terrence with this crazy bit of news that Junior has been put on this shortlist to go to space.
00:38 We're going to replace you.
00:40 What? Me?
00:42 We're going to ensure Hen has company while you're away.
00:45 We're developing a biological replacement, a dynamic copy of you.
00:50 What drew Terrence to Hen and JR is how isolated their current living situation is and Hen's willingness to explore and experience things that are not common experiences.
01:09 I've always had this fantasy that there's something else out there for me.
01:14 Hen is really fighting to not only save her marriage but find agency in her own life.
01:20 Hen is this lost girl and the experience allows her to learn the most about herself.
01:28 The experiment infects the marriage in a way that is manipulative and curious and unsettling.
01:36 I think through all of it, it's just about Junior fighting to protect his marriage when he's aware that something highly stressful is going to happen to it.
01:44 It's a mystery where you truly do not know where it's going.
01:46 You think you're watching this story but in fact the real story is something completely different.
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