A family fights for survival while the world is gripped by a global cyberattack. Three years after the global success of The World After Us, an apocalyptic fiction by American writer Rumaan Alam, Netflix is bringing it to the screen with a five-star cast: Julia Roberts, Ethan Hawke, Kevin Bacon and Mahershala Ali.
1 min
Amanda, her husband and their two children think they are spending a dream weekend by the sea, but everything suddenly changes. No more electricity, no more Internet, they are cut off from the world, while a disturbing couple arrives at their home.
With The world after us, Netflix offers one of its most ambitious productions. The film is produced by Michelle and Barack Obama, and directed by Sam Esmail, beloved author of the series Mister Robot And Homecoming.
The filmmaker constructs an unstable climate, where the danger is all the more stressful because it is invisible, while using special effects to invent classic scenes, including the one where a giant liner runs aground on the beach.
Image of a world gone mad, where humans prove powerless to master the tools they have created. Because this apocalyptic closed session is also a political fable. Special mention to Julia Roberts, to whom the film offers a tasty counter-job. As a surly and racist bourgeoisie, she is the mirror of a nation watched by its old demons.