London Film Festival Review: Andrew Cumming’s ‘The Origin’

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The Highlands of Scotland are the perfect backdrop for Andrew Cumming’s prehistoric genre piece The Origin, a survivalist horror that also works as a thoughtful human drama as its core cast of six …

) washes up at the shore of what they hope to be the promised land. It is, however, a false dawn: the soil is barren, and the group needs to stay on the move if they are to survive. But as they do so, the terrain becomes more forbidding — wide open plains and claustrophobic forests —and something terrifying is on their trail, making nightfall especially tense. , butgoes much further in its world-building, having its characters speak a strange guttural language .

The cast, though their safety is not assured and only one will prevail as what could be called the film’s only true protagonist, is a genuine ensemble, and the diversity of the casting helps establish the fractious state of the group to begin with: the headstrong Adem, his more empathetic brother Geirr , his son Heron and pregnant “wife” Avé .

The reveal, when it comes, is more a slowly dawning realization than a Shyamalan doozy , with plenty of clues along the way that pay back close attention. It may not be especially subtle in that respect, buthas a lot to say about man’s slow-moving and ongoing evolution, reflecting all the myriad divisions in today’s world, from Brexit to Biden’s America, and being especially evocative of a world coming out of lockdown .

 

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