6.3
In the near future where emotions have become a threat, Gabrielle finally decides to purify her DNA in a machine that will immerse her in her past lives and rid her of any strong feelings. She then meets Louis and feels a powerful connection, as if she had known him forever.
Léa Seydoux
Gabrielle
George MacKay
Louis
Guslagie Malanda
Poupée Kelly
Dasha Nekrasova
Dakota
Martin Scali
Georges
Elina Löwensohn
La voyante
Marta Hoskins
Gina
Julia Faure
Sophie
Kester Lovelace
Tom
Félicien Pinot
Augustin
Laurent Lacotte
L'architecte
Pierre-François Garel
Paul Poiret
Céline Carrère
Femme bal 1910
Lukas Ionesco
Anton
Hortense Gelinet
Femme bal 1910
Pauline Jacquard
Femme bal 1910
Alice Barnole
Femme bal 1910
Théo Hakola
Le barman clubs
Antoine Barraud
Homme club 1972
Dejana Poposka
Femme clubs
Galice Cassagnes
Femme clubs
Isabelle Prim
Femme clubs
Veronica Szawarska
Femme clubs
Lottie Andersen
Femme clubs
Matthias El Koulali
Homme clubs
Tom Neal
Assistant réalisateur pub sécurité routière
Tiffany Hofstetter
Femme pub sécurité routière
Dimitri Michelsen
Homme pub sécurité routière
Rémi Canaple
Homme pub sécurité routière
Yasmin Van Deventer
Femme casting mannequins
Jean-Baptiste Heuet
Homme casting mannequins
Thomas Hayward
Chanteur émission karaoké
Andrew Eldridge
Chanteur émission karaoké
Marc Reed
Chanteur émission karaoké
Barry Johnson
Chanteur émission karaoké
Xavier Dolan
Système intelligence artificielle (voice)
Adam Carage
Mr. Denver (voice)
Bertrand Bonello
Réalisateur fond vert (voice)
Doug Rand
Voix service sécurité (voice)
Gianna Salguerio
Doublure piano
Jiselle Henderkott
Danseur club (uncredited)
Joa Jappont
Danseur club (uncredited)
Director, Writer
Bertrand Bonello
Short Story
Henry James
Writer
Guillaume Bréaud
Writer
Benjamin Charbit
March 9, 2024
7
Though it's really way too long, I did rather enjoy the developing chemistry here between Léa Seydoux ("Gabrielle") and George MacKay's "Louis". The story isn't really structured, it's all largely dictated from her consciousness lounging in the bath of Guinness no longer needed by "Baron Harkkonen" where she is having her DNA cleansed. This is ostensibly to make her life happier and more fulfilled, to take the rough edges off disappointment and pain - and generally to turn her into a rather soporific drone. The thing is, whilst plugged in and gently soaking we discover that her brain isn't co-operating with the process and that she is having very lifelike fantasies - historical, contemporary and futuristic with the handsome and enigmatic "Louis". The story in itself isn't really up to very much. It's an episodic jaunt through what is/was/might be their lives - together and apart. What does work well is the ambiguity. The sense that artificial intelligence, either working on it's own or at the behest of humanity, can rearrange our thoughts and our memories. It can create as convincingly as it can delete comprehensively - and all because there is a sense that emotions are unpredictable, unreliable and therefore a threat to the stability of a new "natural order". The dialogue can meander into the realms of psycho-babble now and again which does detract from the subtle but clear thrust of the narrative, but it is actually quite a scary prognosis of what might become fact if we are not careful to protect what is real and important.
Status:
Released
Original Language:
French
Budget:
$8,400,000.00
Revenue:
$760,979.00