Director Garth Davis On Foe And How Sci-Fi Questions Our Existence

Set in 2065, Foe, directed by Garth Davis (Lion) and starring Academy Awards nominees Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal, makes us question our humanity and what part of it we are willing to let go of in the most extreme situations. Adapted from Ian Reid’s novel of the same name, Foe introduces us to Henrietta and Junior, a young couple whose marriage is threatened when a stranger named Terrance (played by Aaron Pierre) announces that Junior has been chosen to be part of a mission that would send him to space for 2 years.

Aaron tells Hen and Junior that a duplicate of Junior will be created in order to keep Hen company. To make this AI version of Junior, Terrance has to move in the couple’s house to analyze Junior’s character, and make sure that the other Junior will be as truthful to the real Junior as possible. Then begins an intense psychological mind game: Who really is the stranger in the house? Why are Hen and Junior behaving so strangely ? It is safe to say that watching the first hour and a half of Foe, spectators will mostly have questions, and not so many answers, until an unexpected and mind-blowing twist reveals the unbearable truth.