Lackluster film adaptation of young adult novel about voyeuristic extraterrestrials is as bizarre as the book, but somehow fails to achieve liftoff.
Set in Providence, R.I., circa 2036-2037, this exercise in speculative pessimism revisits the classic they-came-from-outer-space story with an intriguing twist: After observing Earthlings since 1953, the aliens have already landed. Now they’re annoying facts of life, controlling everything from public education and the food supply to the economy, all from gigantic self-contained environments that hover ominously over daily life.
Adam, a gifted painter whose works serve as arresting visual chapter headings, has been living with his mom Beth and sister Natalie in rapidly declining prosperity when he meets Chloe in art class; she and her father and brother are homeless, and Adam immediately invites them to live in his family’s basement. While Adam and Chloe’s romance blooms — Vuvv eyeballs and valuable dollars — class resentments simmer between the two families.
Written for the screen and directed by Cory Finley, “Landscape With Invisible Hand” feels reasonably faithful to its source material, and it benefits from a lovely musical score by Michael Abels and an appropriately Lynchian visual design by Sue Chan. The Vuvv creatures, who communicate by slaps and rasps created by flipper-like extremities, possess their own kind of charm.
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