In Sci-Fi Fable Anna, the Child Apocalypse Will Not Be Kid-Friendly

A 13-year-old Sicilian girl wearing a backpack sits forlornly on a giant pile of books.

Giulia Dragotto as Anna.
Photo: Christine Ramage/AMC

It’s not usually that an award-winning writer and screenwriter decides to direct a TV sequence tailored from his personal beloved novel, however that’s precisely what Niccolò Ammaniti has carried out with Anna (set to air on AMC+). Based on his 2015 guide, the six-episode sequence takes a science-fiction dystopia—a world the place a mysterious sickness has killed off all of the adults—and turns it right into a horrifying, bewildering, and completely mesmerizing fable, as you’ll be able to see on this trailer, debuting solely on io9.

Suffice it to say, the youngsters are extraordinarily not all proper, beginning with Anna (Giulia Dragotto), whose mother leaves her with a survival information. But it’s not a guide in any respect outfitted to assist Anna by way of the surreal world she should search to search out her kidnapped brother. This isn’t any mere post-apocalyptic TV sequence, based on Anna’s creator, author, and director. “Anna is both a psychedelic trip, a dark tale, and the powerful coming-of-age story of a girl in which childhood is no longer perceived as a station of life, but rather as the permanent condition of all human existence,” defined Ammaniti. “Anna is also things happening with no grand design; paradigm without judgement; and it is also an uncanny paradox that calls into question our very relationship to nature, to ourselves, to our demons—only to remind us that all truth is mystery unto itself, and that all that deserves to be saved is the loving embrace of two children.”

Ammaniti targeted on nature specifically, as you’ll be able to see by how a lot it’s reconquered the world of human civilization within the trailer. “To depict a world without adults was a challenge for all departments,” stated Ammaniti. “Nature, freed from adults, had to come out strongly as the series’ true star. The remains of human civilization, mercifully covered by greenery, reconquering its natural space. Thanks to everybody’s cooperation, I believe, a series has been born that feels sunny and bright—but can turn dark and scary at any moment, without warning.”

The trailer undoubtedly leans extra into the darkish and scary—young children rising from viscous blue paint, others carrying animal masks in poorly lit rooms—however once more, it’s fascinating. It’s definitely pretty much as good an argument for signing as much as AMC+ as I’ve seen. Starring Dragotto because the teenaged title character and 9-year-old Alessandro Pecorella as her kidnapped brother Astor, each of whom are making their TV debuts, Anna premieres on AMC+ on November 18 and can stream episodes weekly.


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