Cory Finley’s third feature, Landscape with Invisible Hand, is an unusual brand of alien invasion movie. There isn’t an invasion at all. The extraterrestrial Vuvv arrived and purchased the Earth and all of humanity, putting most people out of work and into poverty. The only way for a lot of people to make money is to stream their lives to the Vuvv as entertainment, since they find human relationships, in particular love stories, so fascinating.
I had the good pleasure of speaking with Cory Finley about Landscape with Invisible Hand. In our conversation, I told him how his film ended my streak of bad movies to close out Sundance. We talked about what drove him to adapt M.T. Anderson’s book, and any challenges in doing an alien invasion movie that goes against the grain. We also talked about how he wanted to depict the Vuvv visually, and his eagerness to work with star Tiffany Haddish.
Landscape with Invisible Hand opens in theaters on August 18th.
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