IFC Films revealed the official trailer for Biosphere, the comedy film starring Mark Duplass and Sterling K. Brown as two best friends who find themselves the last men on earth.
Directed by Mel Eslyn, making her feature length directorial debut, Biosphere premiered at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, and opens in select theaters and video-on-demand with a release date of July 7.
Billy (Mark Duplass) and Ray (Sterling K. Brown) are lifelong best friends, brothers from another mother – and the last two men on earth. Their survival is largely due to Ray, a brilliant scientist who designed a domed structure with all the systems necessary to sustain life on a planet that could no longer support it. Their custom biosphere is outfitted with basic necessities and creature comforts that make it possible to retain a sense of what life used to be like. A hydroponic garden provides fresh vegetables and a carefully managed fishpond supplies essential protein. Recently, however, fish have begun dying at an alarming rate. With a mere three fish remaining, Billy and Ray face an ominous future. But life may yet find a way.
Reviews have been fairly decent, with the film receiving a B+ from The Playlist, with the reviewer writing, “Through most of its running time, Biosphere somehow manages to have it both ways — it’s infantile but credible, silly but, on a dime, dead serious. Both Brown and Duplass manage to pivot between tones adroitly; their respectively shocked and stunned reactions to the escalating developments are extremely funny, but even a situation as fundamentally and broadly comic as a funeral for Billy’s penis (“From the moment I knew you, I loved you”) can take on unexpected, serious overtones.”
IndieWire rated the film a B-, writing, “Biosphere plays with a central theme of “sometimes things happen that can’t be explained rationally” but doesn’t really go anywhere with it, and some might end up frustrated by where in the narrative the film chooses to end, and which loose threads are left untied.”
“Biosphere is tons of fun as a character study, but its ideas will leave you gazing out of its geodesic windows, wishing there was something more out there.”
Watch the official trailer for Biosphere.