Paul Mescal’s BFI London Film Festival has been a tale of two movies: one, All Of Us Strangers, which everyone is talking/raving about. And the other which people are… not talking/raving about.
Directed by Garth Davis (he did Lion back in 2016), Foe is adapted from the Iain Reid book of the same name, which came out five years ago. Back then a work of fiction set in a near future where climate change has really started getting biblical on the Earth’s ass that also features some robot/AI type stuff seemed less of a tired prospect than it does now, when we are drowning in films of that ilk. Foe is even set in 2065: a year which will be familiar to anyone who has just been to see The Creator (maybe directors need to start bagsying years in which to set their dystopias).
