Although the movie stops at the book's two-thirds mark, the abrupt ending is a killer. It creeped me out and then laid me out. For days I couldn't get out of my head the way it wreaked havoc on my sympathies.
Z for Zachariah
After the end of the world she thought she was alone. She was wrong.
2015 · 1h 37m · PG-13
Drama, Romance, Science Fiction, Thriller
Directed by
Craig Zobel
Overview
In the wake of a nuclear war, a young woman survives on her own, fearing she may actually be the proverbial last woman on earth, until she discovers the most astonishing sight of her life: another human being. A distraught scientist, he’s nearly been driven mad by radiation exposure and his desperate search for others. A fragile, imperative strand of trust connects them. But when a stranger enters the valley, their precarious bond begins to unravel.
Director and cast
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Top critics, in their words
Z for Zachariah has the tasteful dullness of a movie too afraid to make a choice in any direction.
Zobel and Modi have crafted a thoughtful narrative about the experience of navigating and attempting to accommodate others' personalities.
"Z for Zachariah" is ultimately too dramatically slight and brief for its ambitions, despite its sometimes labored myth-making script and visuals.
The drama brims with religious allusion and questions of how faith manifests in a world without hope.
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