Vivarium (5 Stars)

This is the tenth film in the Stuttgart Fantasy Film Festival.

Tom is a gardener. Gemma is a schoolteacher. They're not yet married, but they're considering moving together. They visit an estate agent to look at houses. They drive to a housing estate in the suburbs, but they can't find their way back home. Their car runs out of petrol, so they stay overnight in the fully furnished house they looked at. The whole area is deserted. Nobody lives in any of the houses.

The next day a box is left outside the house with food. That's useful, because there are no shops. The day after that a box is left outside the house containing a baby and a note saying that they can't leave until they've brought up the baby.

There's so much I could say about the film, but I'll refrain for fear of giving away spoilers. It's a bizarre mystery, a living nightmare. This is the sort of role for which Jesse Eisenberg is perfet. He reminds me of his character in "The Double".