Vivarium Synopsis

An international co production between ireland denmark and belgium the film stars imogen poots and jesse eisenberg.

Vivarium synopsis. The film had its world premiere at the cannes film festival on 18 may 2019. It was released in ireland on 27 march 2020 by vertigo releasing. Call it chance destiny or dumb luck but they stumble upon yonder a residential community for new families in search for raising a child in a comfortable environment.

Once hatched the cuckoo pushes the mother bird s young out of the nest and is then tended to by the surrogate mother. Vivarium is a 2019 science fiction thriller film directed by lorcan finnegan from a story by finnegan and garret shanley. There s more hand me down genre movie tropes than recognizable human behavior in the new sci fi horror hybrid vivarium about a young couple jesse eisenberg and imogen poots who is abducted and forced to raise a creepy pod person child.

The film opens with a short clip showing the parasitic life cycle of cuckoos who lay their eggs in the nests of other birds. Which wouldn t be so bad if vivarium wasn t about the suffocating nature of marriage and parenting in the 21st century.