Eye on Juliet - In the eye of the drone
| Movie | |
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| German title | Eye on Juliet - In the eye of the drone |
| Original title | Eye on Juliet |
| Country of production | Canada , France |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2017 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Kim Nguyen |
| script | Kim Nguyen |
| production |
Pierre Even Souad Lamriki |
| music | Timber timbre |
| camera | Christophe Collette |
| cut | Richard Comeau |
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Eye on Juliet is a Canadian-French drama from 2017 about the possibility of seemingly impossible love in times of global digital surveillance. Directed by Kim Nguyen , the leading roles are played by Joe Cole from Canada and Lina El Arabi, a French woman with Moroccan roots .
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The young, inconspicuous technology nerd Gordon has just been abandoned by his girlfriend, with whom he had little more than sex. Gordon works in Detroit for a security company that uses robotic drones to monitor the integrity of oil pipelines in a North African Maghreb state. These six-legged drones crawl like beach crabs over the stony desert area and can monitor every activity in the vicinity of the important oil plants from thousands of kilometers away. The job is monotonous, and one day Gordon observes a seemingly harmless young woman who has sat down on the ground in the desert to smoke a cigarette. Gordon soon became more interested in the girl than in her actual tasks and made contact with the woman using the robotic drone, which was also able to translate instructions he had spoken into Arabic. Her name is Ayusha and is initially irritated by the “speaking” device crawling on the floor.
Gordon, who lists the girl as "Juliet" in his records, soon learns more about her. Thanks to the technical possibilities that he has in distant Detroit, he succeeds in virtually perfect electronic surveillance. Ayusha / "Juliet" is supposed to marry a much older local resident, according to her parents' wishes, so that she is looked after and does not get "stupid thoughts". Ayusha tries to defend herself with hands and feet against this connection with the unloved man. Rather, she loves Karim, who is almost the same age, and plans to flee the country with him. Fascinated more and more by Ayusha and her life, Gordon's drone soon clings to her and Karim like a stalking burdock. When Karim and another man illegally taps into the pipeline in order to earn additional money with the stolen oil, Gordon's drone is promptly present. With the help of the voice computer, Gordon's computer crab, Karim, speaks in Arabic, whereupon he hits the mini-robot in a panic with the spade. Sparks fly and the leaking pipeline oil then causes an explosion. Karim is killed in the fireball.
A little later, Gordon informs the Ayusha that her fiancé Karim is dead. At first the girl cannot believe this and is beside herself with pain. Gordon now sees the chance for himself to finally be there for this girl who has grown more and more dear to his heart over the course of the days. He is determined to help her escape the misery that surrounds her. He offers Ayusha very practical support. Gordon transfers Ayusha US $ 9,900, gives a secret bank code and the required password, which is appropriately called "Romeo and Juliet" (in the original: "Romeo and Juliet"), to collect the money. Before she follows his instructions, Ayusha asks Gordon why he is doing all this for her, and can read between the lines that he obviously feels a lot for her. Locked away by her father, who is extremely angry that his disobeying daughter still does not want to marry the man she has chosen, she can break out of the room. Gordon tells her via his ground drone that he hopes for her that one day she will find the perfect partner for her. In exactly one year he wants to wait for her in a certain Parisian park. He hope she will come.
A year has passed and Gordon is almost late at the meeting point due to the usual traffic jams in the French capital. But then she stands before him. Gordon and Ayusha meet each other cautiously, almost shyly. But then the North African smiles gently at her “savior”. Gordon now remembers what a blind old man who got lost in the desert and whom the drone had safely led out of the wilderness to the only road in the area, had advised him last year. It was then that Gordon asked the old man how to properly approach a woman for the first time. Gordon remembers the old man's advice, hugs Ayusha and presses against her neck. The film leaves it open whether both young people will have a future together.
Production notes
Eye on Juliet - In the Eye of the Drone was mainly shot in Morocco (exterior shots) and was shown to the public for the first time on August 30, 2017 as part of the Venice Film Festival. The German premiere took place on July 12, 2018, the German TV first broadcast was on June 12, 2019 at 8:15 p.m. on Tele5.
Reviews
The Hollywood Reporter saw the film as "a surprisingly clichéd and insensitive melodrama, spiced up with newfangled technology."
Variety judged: "The well-intentioned film seems more than a little tumb in its avoidance of geopolitical details, and the pale drawing of its non-Western characters does it a disservice on top of that."
In the lexicon of the international film it says: “The unusual idea of using military equipment as a love bond, as well as stunning landscape photography, do not help, however, that the plot looks like a cheap male fantasy on the refugee topic. Also annoying is the complete renunciation of a political or social embedding of the story. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ full review in The Hollywood Reporter, August 30, 2017
- ↑ full review in Variety of August 30, 2017
- ↑ Eye on Juliet - In the eye of the drone. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 13, 2019 .
Web links
- Eye on Juliet - In the eye of the drone in the Internet Movie Database (English)