16/24
Plot
Karsh, an innovative businessman and grieving widower, creates a device to communicate with the dead inside the burial shroud
IMDb editor Arno Kazarian offers a brief overview of the 12 films he screened at the 2024 New York Film Festival, including Honora and the dangerously erotic Misericordia.
Diana Kruger replaced Leia Seyda in her role
Mentioned in the Film Junk podcast: Episode 961: In a Violent Nature + TIFF 2024 (2024).
This is a criticism of technological progress, artificial intelligence, privacy and spyware, (experimental) operations and health, the Chinese, capitalism, rich people, modern society and so on and so on
It’s not a terrible movie at its core, the problem is that there are so many ideas and themes at the core that it’s hard not to get lost in all this chaos.
You can consider this movie a « so bad it’s good » movie, at least that’s how I see it, I’m definitely not hurt
Bad writing doesn’t help either, dialogues can be stupid or just to put it bluntly, the story jumps between characters and storylines in a sloppy way, and I know (or at least I think) that part of the dialogue is self-aware and doesn’t take itself seriously, which made it banal, funny (the audience laughed from time to time) and to be honest, fun.