In the year 2045, in a world where artificial intelligence fulfills all human needs and desires, the members of a family in crisis find themselves inexplicably hostage to their domestic robots in their own home. Outside, the latest generation of androids are trying to take over…
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It starts with a sketch a little trashentitled Homo Ridiculus, which we quickly understand is a program that a teenager watches on a virtual screen. Jean-Pierre Jeunet thus puts in place from the start the sarcastic tone that he will borrow to carry out the story of BigBuga film that ultimately talks more about humans than artificial intelligence.
In this futuristic farce, whose story takes place in 2045, the director ofA long engagement Sunday and Fabulous destiny of Amélie Poulain orchestrates a forced cohabitation between people maintaining different relationships, sometimes unwelcome, the most tense being those linking a woman (Elsa Zylberstein) and her ex-husband (Youssef Hajdi), who has come unannounced to settle things in the company of his young fiancée (Claire Chust), when Madame is being courted by an art site director (Stéphane De Groodt) whose ambitions go beyond the professional stage. Not to mention this neighbor (Isabelle Nanty), which we will quickly discover the good use she makes of her human-looking robot.
Like any film by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, BigBug is full of abundant ideas, including the ability of domestic robots to read in humans the true feelings they feel and display the statistics. Monsieur the director of art sites is courting Madame with fine words? Sincerity: 3%. Sex drive: 85%. And so on…
We also had a field day in the artistic direction department. Visually, BigBug impressed. Sometimes told in a tone that does not call for any subtlety, the story is perhaps a little less convincing, but it has the merit of echoing the small and large failings that make human beings what they are. Tomorrow like today.
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fantasy comedy
BigBug
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
With Elsa Zylberstein, Stéphane De Groodt, Isabelle Nanty
1:51 a.m.