In 1929, a doctor (Jude Law) and his lover (Vanessa Kirby) leave Germany to settle on an unpopulated island in the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador while repudiating society's bourgeois values. Their solitude is soon interrupted by a couple (Daniel Bruhl, Sydney Sweeney) who want to settle on the island. When a self proclaimed Baroness (Ana De Armas) arrives with her two lovers (Toby Wallace, Felix Kammerer) on the island with the intention of building a hotel, tensions escalate and it won't end well. Based on a true story and mystery resulting in four deaths (which still hasn't been solved to this day) and directed by Ron Howard (SPLASH). A fascinating true story that Noah Pink's screenplay feasibly theorizes what might have/did happen. It's Howard's best picture in years and impossible to turn your eyes away. While Law and Bruhl are very good, it's the three actresses who hold the movie together: Sweeney's timid wife who rises to unexpected strengths, De Armas' decadent and imperious "Baroness" and Kirby's fiercely dedicated Nietzschean. With Richard Roxburgh and Jonathan Tittel.
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