"From Jean-Pierre Jennet, director of Amélie, The City of Lost Children and Delicatessen" comes
BigBug. This French science fiction comedy film, written and directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Humans have ceded most takes to AI in 2045, even in nostalgic Alice's home. So when robots stage a coup, her androids protectively lock her doors.
The film stars Dominique Pinon, Elsa Zylberstein, Isabelle Nanty, Youssef Hajdi, Alban Lenoir, François Levantal and Claude Perron. All of this is handled in a breezy, off-handed, nutsy manner, as the superb cast combines to help bring it off.
Thriving on eccentricity, the film also utilizes an artistic entwining of music and sound effects, tinged with a spectacularly compelling atmosphere of unease. With its eccentric characters, its weird co-existence between humans and robots, its a uniquely quirky story and blend of dusty antiquities and futuristic gizmos, the film is indescribably wild. What will Jeunet serve for dessert in their next movie? Something equally daring, one hopes -- but more thoroughly cooked and a bit easier to swallow. Like a light-hearted
Brazil it conjures up imagery of such impact, and such resonant subject matter that it will affect audiences for generations to come. Serves up a stew that seems to be made of a little of everything from one hundred years of screen comedy, seasoned with futuristic science-fiction. Part futuristic science-fiction, part domestic drama, part hostage thriller, this ingeniously original French film defies categorization, but is successful on all of these levels, which may explain why it will become an international cult classic. Eventually, the film descends into raw absurdity and excess. But first, it serves as an ample experimental field and proving ground for a wild talent that's thankfully become more disciplined with time. The film takes the futuristic, quirky scenario of humans taken hostage by robots and makes of it something quite poetic and quite funny. Sure, it's funny, it's quirky, it's horny, it's diabolically, unabashedly idiosyncratic, but it's also an epic ode to that most fundamental expression of human endeavor -- creativity. Increasingly inventive as it progresses, Jeunet's fast, funny feature debut entertains from sinister start to frantic finish. A hugely enjoyable film, the film welds comedy and magic into a bizarre, quirky and wild fantasy of an oddball future. This lunatic's take on the future of man is so delightfully warped that it's impossible to shake it out of your head and go get a decent night's sleep. An amazing film, filled with amazing style, a wonderful off-beat tone, and some bits of satire which work with the film instead of being apart from it. A fair bet for cultdom, a lot more likeable than its subject matter suggests, and simply essential viewing for humans and robots. The film showcases dazzling art direction that takes cinematic expressionism to new heights. Set in a wondrously futuristic world populated with eccentric humans and unique artificial intellegence, it glistens with dense fantasies, technological feats that make the catch-phrase "state of the art" seem antique.
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