We couldn’t miss the new film of Jean-Pierre Jeunet for our selection of the week!
Check out our mini-review and have a great weekend!
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WHY
The release of a new film by French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet is always an event in itself, especially when he works with his long-time collaborators. The disappointment is all the greater because the synopsis was interesting with robots trying to become human and also a criticism of the consumer society, ultra-connected and completely assisted. It also marked the director’s return to science fiction after Alien: Resurrection and featuring an interesting cast. Unfortunately the actors tend to overact, giving almost the impression of attending a play and not a film which is often the case with a French comedy. The dialogues are often very conventional and not very interesting. The film seems to want to tackle many subjects but without deepening them and we go too quickly from one sequence to another. It’s a pity because we can still feel the director’s style but it never manages to be completely in place like some sequences with the robots, the caricatures of advertisements and the various really cool cameos. We are unfortunately far from the creativity and poetry of Delicatessen and Amelie which remain his best films.
WHAT
In 2045, artificial intelligence is everywhere. So much so that humanity relies on it to satisfy its every need and every desire – even the most secret and wicked… In a quiet residential area, four domestic robots suddenly decide to take their masters hostage in their own home. Locked together, a not-quite-so-blended family, an intrusive neighbour and her enterprising sex-robot are now forced to put up with each other in an increasingly hysterical atmosphere! While, outside, the Yonyx, the latest generation of androids, are trying to take over. As the threat draws closer, the humans look elsewhere, get jealous, and rip into each other under the bewildered eyes of their indoor robots. Maybe it’s the robots who’ve got a soul – or not!
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