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6.3/10 • 202

2024-02-072h 26m

DramaScience FictionRomance

You remember, don't you? That we have already met?

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.

Directors
Bertrand Bonello
Writters
Bertrand Bonello, Guillaume Bréaud, Benjamin Charbit
Editors
Bertrand Bonello, Guillaume Bréaud, Benjamin Charbit, Anita Roth

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  1. Léa Seydoux

    Léa Seydoux

    Gabrielle

  2. George MacKay

    George MacKay

    Louis

  3. Guslagie Malanda

    Guslagie Malanda

    Poupée Kelly

  4. Dasha Nekrasova

    Dasha Nekrasova

    Dakota

  5. Martin Scali

    Martin Scali

    Georges

  6. Elina Löwensohn

    Elina Löwensohn

    La voyante

  7. Marta Hoskins

    Marta Hoskins

    Gina

  8. Julia Faure

    Julia Faure

    Sophie

  9. Kester Lovelace

    Kester Lovelace

    Tom

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CinemaSerf

Mar 9, 2024

7/10

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.

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Status
Released
Original Language
French
Budget
$7,500,000.00
Revenue
$760,979.00
Keywords
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