Look out for 'The Road' coming out soon starring Viggo Mortensen. The film is based on the book of the same name by Cormac McCarthy. He has two other film adaptions of his works 'No Country for Old Men' which you no doubt have heard of, and 'All the Pretty Horses' a film which although being watchable is not where near as good as 'No Country...".
'The Road' is set in a post-apocalyptic landscape near the appalachian mountains in america, nothing grows or lives everything is covered in ash and dust which the sun can no longer cut through. The story follows the journey of a father and his young son trying to survive and find a haven of life as they travel along the now abandoned roads of north america encountering the myriad dangers of this new devasted world.
The novel won a pulitzer prize and if the film is anywhere near as good you can expect it to get its own array of awards as well. The book is seriously bleak sad and dark but the story will affect you in a way that will stay with you for days.
I feel I have to say that although I love them this isn't another run of the mill post-apocolyptic film where the oil has run out and everyone wears leather and has mowhawks, the book has been described as a love story about about the father and son with the landscape merely the setting for their story.
Go see it and feel obliged to read the book to.