SEA FEVER (2019)

Ireland-USA-UK-Sweden-Belgium. Direction: Neasa Hardiman. Production: Brendan McCarthy, John McDonnell / Fantastic Films, Bright Pictures, Frakas Productions, Markas Productions, Screen Ireland, Epic Pictures Group, Film i Väst, Wallimage, VOO / Be tv, Creative Scotland, Creativity Capital, Flexibon Films. Coproduction: Börje Hansson, Jean-Yves Roubin, Cassandre Warnauts, Eddie Dick. Screenplay: Neasa Hardiman. Photography: Ruairí O'Brien. Music: Christoffer Franzén. Edition: Barry Moen, Julian Ulrichs. Cast: Hermione Corfield, Dougray Scott, Connie Nielsen, Ardalan Esmaili, Olwen Fouéré, Jack Hickey. Running time: 94 min.

LANGUAGE: English / SUBTITLES: Spanish

They say it owes its existence to The Thing (1982), Alien (1979) and The Abyss (1989). Well it would, one always comes back to one's myths and masters. But Ireland's Neasa Hardiman manages just fine to make this, her first cinematic work, shine with its own personality. It's no coincidence that she graduated cum laude in Fine Arts, completed a Master's Degree in Visual Communications in Berlin and in Dublin graduated farther in Aesthetics & Politics and Film. She has also worked on hundreds of British and North American series, including Marvel's "Inhumans" (2017). All aboard! A movie acclaimed at Toronto and at the DaVinci Film Festival. A fishing boat. On ship, a scientist who studies the behavioural patterns of creatures inhabiting the depths of the sea...