Neptune Frost (2022)
82%RT Audience Score: 71%
Awards & Nominations: NA
Bursting with ideas and ambition, Neptune Frost is difficult to describe — and just as hard to resist.
Neptune Frost is like a wild rollercoaster ride that you can’t help but hop on. It’s got so many ideas and dreams packed into it that it’s hard to keep up, but that’s what makes it so darn exciting. You’ll be on the edge of your seat the whole time, wondering where it’s going to take you next. It’s like a crazy dream that you don’t want to wake up from. Trust me, you won’t regret taking this wild ride.
Production Company(ies)
Amazon Studios, DUST, Intrepid Pictures, MGM Studios, Prime Video, Tyler Perry Studios, VOD
Distributor
Kino Lorber
Release Type
Streaming
Filming Location(s)
MPAA / Certificate
Year of Release
2022
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:Dolby
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Aspect ratio:1.66 : 1
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Runtime:1h 45m
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Language(s):
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Country of origin:United States
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Release date:Release Date (Theaters): Jun 3, 2022 Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 5, 2022
Genre(s)
Musical/Sci-Fi
Keyword(s)
Neptune Frost, musical, sci-fi, intersex, hacking collective, authoritarian regime, cosmic forces, hypnotic visuals, original songs, power, exploitation, love, Swahili, Saul Williams, Anisia Uzeyman, Maria Judice, Ezra Miller, Kino Lorber, Cheryl Isheja, Elvis Ngabo, Kaya Free, Bertrand Ninteretse, Eliane Umuhire, Memory, Dorcy Rugamba, Rebecca Mucyo, box office, budget, reviewed by Phil Hoad, David Sims, Adam Graham, Sarah Jane, K Austin Collins, Arionne Nettles, Nadine Whitney, Ben Bradley, Alexa Dalby, directed by Saul Williams, written by Saul Williams, produced by Maria Judice, Ezra Miller, Anisia Uzeyman, Saul Williams, MPAA rating, musical sci-fi, intersex runaway, recycled computer parts, coltan miner, authoritarian regime, cosmic forces, hypnotic visuals, original songs, power, exploitation, love, Swahili, Kino Lorber, Cheryl Isheja, Elvis Ngabo, Kaya Free, Bertrand Ninteretse, Eliane Umuhire, Memory, Dorcy Rugamba, Rebecca Mucyo, Phil Hoad, David Sims, Adam Graham, Sarah Jane, K Austin Collins, Arionne Nettles, Nadine Whitney, Ben Bradley, Alexa Dalby, Maria Judice, Ezra Miller, Anisia Uzeyman, Saul Williams, box office performance, budget
Worldwide gross: NA
Worldwide gross (inflation-adjusted): NA
Worldwide gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): NA
Worldwide tickets sold (est.): NA
US/Canada gross: NA
US/Canada gross (inflation-adjusted): NA
US/Canada gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): NA
US/Canada opening weekend: $8,527
US/Canada opening weekend (inflation-adjusted): $8,527
US/Canada opening weekend ranking (inflation-adjusted): 2,719
Budget and Earnings Details
Production budget (est.): NA
Production budget (inflation-adjusted): NA
Production budget ranking: NA
Marketing and distribution budget (inflation-adjusted est.): NA
Box office net earnings to date (inflation-adjusted est.): NA
ROI to date (est.): NA
ROI ranking: NA
Bertrand Ninteretse – Matalusa
Eliane Umuhire – Memory
Elvis Ngabo – Neptune (1)
Dorcy Rugamba – Innocent
Rebecca Mucyo – Elohel
Saul Williams – Director, Writer, Producer
Anisia Uzeyman – Director, Producer
Maria Judice – Producer
Ezra Miller – Producer
Kino Lorber – Distributor
Director(s)
Saul Williams, Anisia Uzeyman
Writer(s)
Saul Williams
Producer(s)
Maria Judice, Ezra Miller, Anisia Uzeyman, Saul Williams
Film Festivals
Toronto
Awards & Nominations
NA
Academy Awards
All Critics (81) | Top Critics (26) | Fresh (78) | Rotten (3)
It sometimes gets bogged down in turgid polemic, but what’s surprising is how supple and communitarian it stays.
October 31, 2022 | Rating: 4/5
Phil Hoad
Guardian
TOP CRITIC
The film is a critique of the capitalist ravages visited on Burundi and its neighbors by a technology-obsessed society. It’s also a soaring, poetic vision of a transformative future, filled with abstract scenes of singing and partying.
August 3, 2022
David Sims
The Atlantic
TOP CRITIC
“Neptune Frost” is a blazingly original mood piece about humanity, technology, the Earth and our spirits and how they all tangle in rhythm, or out of rhythm, with each other.
June 30, 2022 | Rating: B+
Adam Graham
Detroit News
TOP CRITIC
Neptune Frost is a musical, yes, but it’s almost like a tone-poem.
June 16, 2022
Sarah Jane
Austin Chronicle
TOP CRITIC
It’s a difficult movie to describe with any elegance, which is a good thing, because what’s enriching about it exists more powerfully in images than in speech.
June 15, 2022
K. Austin Collins
Rolling Stone
TOP CRITIC
It’s a sci-fi, Afrofuturistic story that is also a musical that takes place in the past, present, and future, while also spanning the wide depths of identity and innovation.
June 14, 2022
Arionne Nettles
Chicago Reader
TOP CRITIC
… a miracle in independent filmmaking.
December 2, 2022 | Rating: 18/20
Nadine Whitney
FILMINK (Australia)
Regardless of what you’ll make of the story, which requires the utmost attention and is often mesmerising, it’s impossible not to be moved by the visuals and superb soundtrack.
November 4, 2022 | Rating: 8/10
Ben Bradley
Starburst
It’s weirdly fascinating, but at times tantalisingly slow and raw.
November 3, 2022 | Rating: 3/5
Alexa Dalby
Dog and Wolf
Watching this sci-fi punk, Afrofuturist musical is like entering another dimension.
September 23, 2022
Laura Moreno
Bay Area Reporter
Rich with symbolism that brings past to present and reinterprets it for the future, the film speaks of resilience and power. And it does it like no film you’ve seen before.
July 27, 2022 | Rating: 4/5
Hope Madden
MaddWolf
The narrative aspect, if one can be found, becomes irrelevant when since the beginning we get lost with the hypnotic iconography and the musicalized poetry. [Full review in Spanish]
July 21, 2022 | Rating: B
Gisela Savdie
Letra Urbana…
Plot
In an e-waste camp, a subversive hacking collective attempts to overthrow an authoritarian regime exploiting the region’s natural resources, while an intersex runaway and an escaped coltan miner find each other through cosmic forces, sparking glitches within the greater divine circuitry in the celestial cyber-musical Neptune Frost.
Trivia
Goofs / Tidbits
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