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Directed by | Lorcan Finnegan |
Screenplay by | Garret Shanley |
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Cinematography | MacGregor |
Edited by | Tony Cranstoun |
Music by | Kristian Eidnes Andersen |
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Running time | 97 minutes |
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Language | English |
Budget | €4 million[4] |
Box office | $434,030[5] |
Vivarium is a 2019 surrealist science fantasy horror film directed by Lorcan Finnegan, from a story by Finnegan and Garret Shanley. Shanley also wrote the screenplay. An international co-production between Ireland, Denmark, and Belgium, it stars Imogen Poots, Jesse Eisenberg, Jonathan Aris, and Éanna Hardwicke.
It premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on 18 May 2019, and was released in Ireland on 27 March 2020 by Vertigo Releasing. The film follows a couple (Eisenberg and Poots) who are forced to care for a mysterious humanoid creature while trapped in a strange, vivarium-like neighbourhood.
Vivarium, which cost 4 million euros (about $4.3 million, £3.6 million or AU$7.3 million).