Director Asif Kapadia is best known for his documentaries chronicling the lives of entertainment icons whose work left indelible marks on the worlds of music and sports. But his next feature looks like a nightmarish vision of a future that feels all too possible.
Though 2073, Kapadia’s new film, features plenty of archival news footage from our present, it’s also a sci-fi thriller set in a distant future where years of climate-related disasters and the rise of authoritarianism have transformed the world into a dystopian hellscape. To people like Ghost (Samantha Morton) — a woman barely surviving in an apocalyptic San Francisco by keeping off the grid — it’s all too clear how societies across the globe descended into chaos. But rather...
