Dante 01

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Movie
German title Dante 01
Original title Dante 01
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 2008
length (abridged) 88 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Marc Caro
script Marc Caro,
Pierre Bordage
production Richard Grandpierre
music Raphael Elig ,
Eric Wenger
camera Jean Poisson
cut Linda Attab ,
Sébastien Prangère
occupation

Dante 01 is a French science fiction - Thriller the director Marc Caro from 2008. It is his first film without the collaboration with Jean-Pierre Jeunet . The film had a budget of eight million US dollars.

action

The action takes place in the space station Dante 01, a psychiatric prison and experimental station for seven serious criminals, three guards ( Cer and Berus ), two doctors ( Persephone and Elisa, who arrives at the beginning of the film) and the station manager Charon . Although the inmates are extremely dangerous, the prisoner César has established himself as a leader, which guarantees certain rules in coexistence.

The situation changes when Elisa joins the crew as a new member of the crew. Unlike Persephone, she does not try to heal the prisoners through proven psychological treatment methods, but unscrupulously applies experimental nanotechnology , which causes great pain and the outcome of which is uncertain.

The "stranger" joins the prisoners as a further factor of uncertainty. He wears a tattoo of St. George on his shoulder, is plagued by painful visions and at first seems unable to speak.

But at the latest when he saves several of his fellow prisoners from the nanomachines and from certain death, Persephone begins to understand that she is dealing with more than just one madman.

The situation begins to get out of control when César orders a murder attempt on the stranger and the prisoner Attila gets the station under his control via the computer system and programs it to crash. There is little time left to prevent the crash onto the planet.

In view of the new situation, staff and inmates are forced to cooperate. César agrees to take the dangerous route to manual control to get the station back into a stable orbit, but dies on the way. Elisa lets anesthetic gas flow into the cells and wants to save herself with the emergency shuttle instead of stabilizing the entire space station. She is stopped by the prisoner Lazarus , but she is able to persuade him to flee together. However, the shuttle crashes.

In a space suit, the stranger enters the universe between the station and the inhospitable planet Dante and gives up his own existence in an eruption of energy. The hell planet Dante is then transformed into a blue planet.

Reviews

Lisa Nesselson from the US industry service Variety praised the film as a “throbbing, disturbing fairy tale” and referred to Caro's “breathtaking dark style” , which the director had already shown together with Jean-Pierre Jeunet at Delicatessen and The City of Lost Children . Main actor Lambert Wilson delivers a committed, almost wordless portrayal and is "wonderfully muscular and expressive" . The Swiss daily Le Temps was less positive . Dante 01 is staged “without talent” , appears “lumpy, pretentious and childish.” Caro's first directorial work in twelve years has “amazingly stupid” dialogues, “clumsy symbolism” , no humor and lasts significantly longer than two hours. Eberhard von Elterlein ( Die Welt ) gave a similar verdict in a short review on the occasion of the heavily abridged DVD release of the film: "A symbolic sci-fi fairy tale with an" alien "look and a" 2001 "attitude by Marc Caro" , which is " cited only ponderously through film and intellectual history - with gaps as big as black holes. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ DVD Times - Dante 01 - A forthcoming new film from Marc Caro
  2. ↑ cf. Nesselson, Lisa: Dante 01 . In: Variety, January 7th – 13th January 2008, Reviews
  3. ↑ cf. "Dante 01", l'enfer de Marc Caro . In: Le Temps, January 4, 2008, Culture
  4. ↑ cf. Brief reviews . In: Die Welt, August 25, 2008, edition 199/2008, p. 17