Eva (2011)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Eve |
| Original title | Eve |
| Country of production | Spain |
| original language | Spanish |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Kike Maíllo |
| script |
Sergi Belbel Cristina Clemente Martí Roca Aintza Serra |
| production |
Lita Roig Aintza Serra Sergi Casamitjana |
| music |
Evgueni Galperine Sacha Galperine |
| camera | Arnau Valls Colomer |
| cut | Elena Ruiz |
| occupation | |
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Eva (reference title: Eva - You can't program feelings ) is a Spanish science fiction film by director Kike Maíllo from 2011 with Daniel Brühl , Marta Etura and Claudia Vega in the leading roles.
action
Different types of robots accompany people in their lives. There are robot pets or robots in human form that can run the household. So-called “free robots” that act entirely on the basis of their own will are, however, prohibited. All robots are designed in such a way that they automatically switch off when asked "What do you see when you close your eyes?" However, the entire memory and thus the emotional connections of the robot are also deleted.
Alex Garel is a specialist in programming emotions in robots. After ten years he is coming back to his former homeland, because Julia at the Robotics College asked him to help program a robot in the form of a child. There he also meets Lana, his childhood sweetheart. She works as a lecturer at the university and now lives with David, Alex's brother. Alex moves to his parents' house, which has been empty since his father's death, to work.
While looking for a suitable child as a model for his programming of emotions for the robot, he happened upon ten-year-old Eva. It turns out that Eve is the daughter of Lana and David. Alex starts working with Eva, but Eva's mother doesn't want to. However, Eva continues to sneak up to Alex without her mother's knowledge.
Alex develops programming and tests it with a robot prototype . When he becomes aggressive one day and threatens Alex, Alex has to deactivate him with the question "What do you see when you close your eyes?" As a result, his work suffers a setback.
Alex and Lana get closer at a party. David observes this and there is a scuffle between the two men. Alex then decides to leave his home again and not finish the project. However, Lana asks Alex to stay. She also tells him that Eva is really a robot they built. Eva overhears this conversation and runs angrily into the forest. When Lana finds her, Eva lies lifeless on the floor. Lana opens a mechanical flap on Eva's back and can reactivate it. Eva wakes up again and is confused about what has happened. Lana tries to calm her down, but Eva defends herself. Lana accidentally falls off a cliff. Eva can walk back to Alex's house, but collapses again there. Lana later dies of injuries from the fall in the hospital.
Julia reports to Alex that Lana completed a robot project that Alex left ten years ago, and that Eva became the result. Furthermore, she demands to destroy the robot Eva, because she killed Lana. Alex finds this difficult, but he finally deactivates Eva with the question “What do you see when you close your eyes?” And thus erases Eva's personality .
criticism
“In his science fiction style study“ Eva ”, which featured prominently with Daniel Brühl, director Kike Maíllo creates a pretty 2041 with all sorts of interesting androids, but doesn't know how to fill it with a captivating story. The Spanish production flattens all too quickly into unbelievable heartache and dramaturgical insignificance. "
"In terms of production, the extremely chic directorial debut by Kike Maíllo is a convincing success, but the plot, which is quite original in the system, turns out to be far less powerful in the further course."
“... what an exciting, intelligent genre film this could have been. Unfortunately, he then exhausts himself in the staging of one or two customary plot twists, which can also be foreseen an hour in advance, and in the creation of a pretty, but always a bit too harmless imagery ... "
Locations
Much of the film was shot in the Swiss border town of La Chaux-de-Fonds . When Alex arrives at the airport, the Temple des Eplatures cemetery chapel can be clearly seen in the background, which is actually on the edge of the runway. The epilogue was filmed in Tenerife .
publication
The film was shown at various film festivals and opened in Spanish cinemas on October 28, 2011. In Germany, the film was not shown in cinemas, but was released directly on DVD in 2012. With a production budget of around 7 million euros, the film only grossed around 1.2 million euros at the box office, most of it in Spain.
Web links
- Eva in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Eva in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ↑ Critique of Eva at moviereporter.de
- ↑ Critique of Eva at filmstarts.de
- ↑ Critique of Eva at critic.de
- ^ Filming locations