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Comic Book Fun , 17 June 2008
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Immortal
on DVD (2004)
Starring: Linda Hardy, Thomas Kretschmann, Charlotte Rampling
Director: Enki Bilal
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If you looked for this film because you have heard of Enki Billal and you have read his books then keep going, rent it and enjoy. It might disappoint some but it's worth a look.
For the rest, well, it's a nice sci-fi film, the mix of CGI and Live Action is not seamless but it fit's it's purpose. I did actually got a bit disappointed by some of the CGI characters. They would seem more at home in the game genre rather than the movies, so not quite Lord of the Rings in terms of quality and detail.
Enough about what bothered me in the film. Let's see some of the good stuff.
This film is about fatherhood, believe it or not, it refreshingly ignores the common 'modern' single god religion schema and quite blatantly presents Horus the god/creator of whole human kind on his way to find a mate, while the other gods wait for him playing monopoly. Now where do you see something like this eh?
It also looks into the future as something completely messed and mixed up without trying to show any order or any struggle of power... It is just a mixed up future, where aliens humans and mutants exist trying to find new drugs and new treatments...
Well maybe i am over analyzing it but if it was a normal setup with a big brother police state and a pseudo religious signature of church-o-mysticism dogma junk, I would have hated this film...
The main characters are interesting but not so well developed. The secondary ones keep a very low profile and are involved in a sub plot that doesn't really convince... So story wise, the film is loosing some depth when there could be quite a lot maybe via real actors and a better worked script.
Maybe if the film was in French it would avoid being so two dimensional. Who knows...
Enki Billal's directing shows off his twisted sense of story telling. It works well with the mixed up basis of the film, you don't loose the plot even when the frames just take over each other in a short of dirty time shift style, sometimes...
I hope i got it right or I really lost the plot there!
You know what's a brilliant film that this should try more to learn from? The Fifth Element... Get that instead if you haven't seen it yet!
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