‘Truly epic’ post-apocalyptic movie could land historic Oscars nod after 100% Rotten Tomatoes score

A caller Latvian animated feature, Flow, could beryllium an unexpected frontrunner successful this year’s Oscars contention aft impressing critics with its heartfelt crippled acceptable successful a dystopian world.

The soundless movie – from ‘visionary director’ Gints Zilbalodis – follows a divers unit of animals – a cat, a capybara, immoderate dogs to sanction a few – who indispensable enactment unneurotic to past aft getting caught up successful a cataclysmic flood.

The moving storyline and stirring animation has had thing but rave reviews from critics truthful acold who are already hailing it arsenic the adjacent animation classic.

‘It’s not conscionable a ultimate illustration of a movie kids volition emotion that adults volition too. With its wordlessness, this is simply a movie that could play successful immoderate state of the world, its capableness to scope virtually everyone limitless.

‘And yet it’s extremist portion being arsenic accessible arsenic immoderate animated movie could ever be,’ IndieWire wrote successful their top-tier review.

Meanwhile, Hollywood Reporter praised the film’s quality to ‘shatter your bosom past marque it full again’.

‘Told wholly without dialogue, this communicative of a feline that evolves from self-preservation to solidarity with a motley unit of different taxon is thing rather special,’ the professional added.

Film professional Orion’s Shoulder echoed: ‘Flow is genuinely epic, and portion it lone momentarily steps into the mystical, it is magical throughout.’

Elsewhere, Variety added that ‘animal-loving viewers volition enslaved astir instantly with the feline and its motley companions.’

The 29-year-old filmmaker made his movie debut with besides lauded animated movie Away successful 2019 and has intelligibly lone improved connected his trade since then.

Now, Latvia has entered Flow arsenic their prime for champion planetary diagnostic movie for the 97th Academy Awards. It besides showcased astatine the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year.

In a vigor interrogation during the festival, Gints opened up astir the connection down the movie.

‘I person my ain thought of what the movie means, but it’s hard to explicate successful words since the movie has nary words. I’d accidental that it’s important to spot others but enactment autarkic astatine the aforesaid time,’ he said astatine the time.

The state has antecedently submitted 15 antithetic films for the class which person each been unsuccessful and ne'er made it to the information stage, but that could each beryllium astir to alteration arsenic Flow continues to rake successful fantabulous feedback.

The movie volition archetypal person to beryllium shortlisted, which volition beryllium announced successful December,and the last 5 nominees confirmed connected 17 January.

Flow is besides acceptable to beryllium released internationally and volition get successful UK cinemas connected March 1, 2025.

But for those who simply can’t hold to ticker it, the movie volition besides beryllium premiering astatine the London Film Festival in October truthful marque definite you drawback it connected the large surface portion you can.

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