Based on Robert Macfarlane's bestseller, UNDERLAND, a cinematic voyage beneath the surface of the earth into worlds rarely glimpsed by human eyes to explore the unknown below our feet.
Based on Robert Macfarlane's bestseller, UNDERLAND, a cinematic voyage beneath the surface of the earth into worlds rarely glimpsed by human eyes to explore the unknown below our feet.
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Darren Aronofsky produced it through his Protozoa Pictures banner. The Academy Award-nominated director of Black Swan and The Whale served as a producer alongside Ari Handel, Lauren Greenwood, and Jessica Harrop — bringing major prestige to a documentary about caves, glaciers, and abandoned mines.
Sandra Hüller narrates the entire film. The Oscar-nominated star of Anatomy of a Fall provides the narration, lending her distinctive voice to a documentary that journeys from Mayan caves to Las Vegas storm drains to a Princeton physics laboratory.
It follows an unlikely trio of real-life explorers. Rather than relying on a single host, the film centers on three distinct experts: speleo-archaeologist Fátima Tec Pool, urban explorer and geographer Bradley Garrett, and Princeton theoretical particle physicist Mariangela Lisanti — a deliberately interdisciplinary approach to mapping the world beneath our feet.
It marks the director's second collaboration with author Robert Macfarlane. Petit and Macfarlane previously made the acclaimed 2019 experimental film Upstream together. For Underland, Macfarlane co-wrote the screenplay with Petit, adapting his own bestselling book Underland: A Deep Time Journey.