![]() ![]() In our first sight of MR, she stares out of the grimy window of a space elevator ascending to Aniara, for what seems like a routine flight. The ‘Mima Hall’ offers respite from burning hell on the users’ home planet, and from the emptiness of the vacuum beyond the ship’s walls. ![]() Invented by the first Mars colonists, Mima taps human memories to plunge visitors into a dream-like simulation of paradise: Earth as it was. The protagonist, called the Mimarobe or MR (played by Emelie Jonsson), oversees the ship’s sentient computer, Mima. Like that work, it charts a devastating course for the eponymous ship’s passengers, and becomes an exploration of human adaptability, endurance and despair. Co-directed by Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lilja, the film is based on a 1956 epic poem of the same name by Nobel-prizewinning Swedish writer Harry Martinson. It is drenched in existential angst, realism and trippy soundtracks - an art film with hints of Swedish auteur Ingmar Bergman’s oeuvre. But Aniara, the Swedish film pivoting on this catastrophe, is not about skintight spacesuits and high-tech derring-do in the void. ![]() Evacuees, many scarred by the flames of some unnamed Armageddon, set out for Mars on a space ferry. It’s a premise that is all too easy to imagine: in the not-too-distant future, humans must flee a scorched, uninhabitable Earth. Credit: Magnolia PicturesĪniara Directors: Pella Kågerman & Hugo Lilja (2018) Emelie Jonsson plays Aniara protagonist the Mimarobe. ![]()
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