In the new film “Vivarium” directed by Lorcan Finnegan, actress Imogen Poots finds herself playing a character thrust into a situation where she and her significant other (Jesse Eisenberg) are ensnared in a suburban fever dream where comfort is replaced by hysteria and horror. Based on a story by Finnegan and screenwriter Garret Shanely, “Vivarium” is a two-hander, but Poots is the one who gets the real chance to shine as a young woman forced to deal with what it means to lead an ideal and comfortable life in a heightened, dread-inducing setting.

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We’re going to pause the daily discussion of coronavirus and the pandemic’s effect on everything you love and hold dear for just about 10 minutes today. Why? Because we have an interview with actor Jesse Eisenberg that is worth your time and will hopefully put a smile on your face as you deal with the stresses of working from home when your company doesn’t have the right protocol to do such things and your kids are home from school treating this outbreak as Spring Break 2.0.

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Picking out your first home as a married couple is likely a huge choice for folks. If you plan on having kids, you need to make sure you’re near good schools. You have to look at crime statistics. There’s also the idea of budget and neighborhood. Long story short, it’s a big deal. For a young couple in “Vivarium,” this big decision turns into a twisted nightmare.

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As seen in the new trailer for “Vivarium,” a young couple is taking a look at a new starter home in what seems to be a neighborhood ripped from a suburban nightmare.

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It consumed, delighted, and maddened many of us, even from afar, but the 2019 Cannes Film Festival is finally done. South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-Ho‘s social satire “Parasite” won the coveted Palme d’Or prize (a first for South Korea), and Mati Diop’s “Atlantique,” won the runner-up Grand Prix prize, becoming the first Black female director to win a Cannes prize (after 72 years, she was also somehow the first Black female director in competition).

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As far as groan-inducing subjects for satire go, suburbia is pretty much like shooting fish in a barrel. It’s a bit of a relic, too, as doom-and-gloom headlines declare millennials’ declining interest in becoming homeowners.  But tell that to Irish helmer Lorcan Finnegan, whose surreal, supernatural take on the outskirts makes its premiere in the Critics’ Week program at the Cannes Film Festival. In his second feature, Finnegan twists suburban banality into something altogether horrifying and unnerving.

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As we approach the mid-May launch of the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, more and more information is beginning to be announced about what offerings the French event will have this year. No, that doesn’t mean we have any word on the Quentin Tarantino film that everyone seems to be anxious about. Instead, this announcement is about the 2019 Cannes Critics’ Week section that runs parallel to the main competition.

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There’s really nothing that can prepare you for the stress and excitement that comes with buying your first house. You walk into vacant homes and begin to picture what it’s going to look like with all your stuff strewn about. You imagine the paint you’ll use on the walls, and what renovations you may have to make. But in the new film “Vivarium,” the process of buying a house turns complicated and otherworldly for a young couple.

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While prestigious films make their debut at Cannes, in the basement of the Palais, the marketplace is where new projects are being announced and shopped around. It’s hard to keep to keep up with all of them, but here are some of the latest highlights:

While it’s not the six-film action pantomimes franchise we were hoping for, you do want to see a movie about the world’s greatest mime, right? Well, Jesse Eisenberg will play the legendary French mime Marcel Marceau in the film, “Resistance,” centering on the artist’s involvement in the resistance in the WWII.

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