Garth Davis’ new film Foe delivers a troubling and lonely vision of the future

Australian filmmaker Garth Davis, the director of the acclaimed film Lion, returns with a desolate and familiar vision of the future in his sci-fi, domestic drama, Foe. 

Based on the novel by Ian Reid, who also co-wrote the script with Davis, the film follows Hen and Junior, played by Int Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal, a lonely and isolated couple living on a withering farm in the late part of twenty first century when the Earth has been ravaged by humanities carelessness and slowly become uninhabitable. 

One night the couple is visited by a stranger who offers Junior an opportunity to work in space and provide an artificially intelligent substitute to accompany Hen in Juniors absence. But as these new changes draw nearer, the true feelings of the couple are brought to the surface. While the real intentions of this new stranger in their lives is held in suspicion. 

RTRFM producer Will Yagmich spoke with director Garth Davis to hear all about his new film Foe.