Immortal - New York 2095: The Return of the Gods

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Movie
German title Immortal - New York 2095: The Return of the Gods
Original title Immortel (ad vitam)
Country of production France
original language English
Publishing year 2004
length 99 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Enki Bilal
script Enki Bilal
Serge Lehman
production Dominique Brunner
Sylvie Chevreau
Charles Gassot
Daniel J. Walker
music Ralph Rainger
Goran Vejvoda
camera Pascal Gennesseaux
cut Véronique Parnet
occupation

Immortal - New York 2095: The Return of the Gods (Immortel (ad vitam)) is a 2004 turned in English, but in France produced science fiction film. Based on the first two volumes of Enki Bilal's Alexander Nikopol trilogy La foire aux immortels (“The Immortals' Business”, 1980) and La femme piège (“The Woman in the Future”, 1986), the film combines computer-animated characters and scenarios with real, human actors. Along with Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Immortal is one of the first major films to depict actors in an almost entirely computer-generated world, deliberately making the artificial elements appear unreal. The film was shown for the first time in Germany on July 24, 2004 as part of the Fantasy Film Festival .

action

The film takes place in a dystopian New York in the year 2095, in which real and genetically modified humans live side by side with mutants.

A mysterious pyramid has appeared over the New York of the future, which is divided into three layered zones. On board are the gods of ancient Egypt , who judge Horus . Before the god is supposed to lose his immortality, he is granted seven days on earth.

The environmental conditions in Central Park are no longer compatible with the life of a mortal, which is why it has been officially declared a Forbidden Zone. Initially, a number of mutants are arrested, one of which is Jill, a young woman with initially electrically charged dandruff and deformed internal organs, and later blue hair and human anatomy. Jill appears to be only three months old and has a range of hidden skills, some of which she knows and some of which she doesn't. Unknown to her, she is one of the few beings in the entire universe who can give birth to a god. Jill is withdrawn by a doctor from the highly controversial pharmaceutical company Eugenics, which does not shy away from open resistance to state power. Jill is largely cared for by John, who takes the necessary steps to naturalize her.

Horus now uses his seven days to look for Jill and to have sexual relations with her before his immortality is taken from him. In order to fulfill this task, he needs a person who has been spared genetic engineering and whom he finds in Nikopol - a political prisoner who 30 years earlier because of his rebellion against apartheid and because of his knowledge of the corruption of the father of the current Senator Allgood regarding illegal activities Experiments by Eugenics has been put into cold sleep. Nikopol proves to be compatible, whereupon Horus takes possession of him temporarily and partially in order to use his body as a tool for the act of procreation. In an interview with Horus, Nikopol emphasizes that he does not agree with Horus' approach, but he cannot defend himself against the supernatural powers of Horus. When Horus discovers Jill in the body of Nikopol, they are embroiled in a web of murder and intrigue in connection with Eugenics and Allgood.

This web finally dissolves quite quickly and to Jill's advantage and ends in the Forbidden Zone, which disappears shortly afterwards. During this event, Jill loses her memories, including those of Nikopol. Nikopol still has to serve the remainder of his sentence while Jill and her child, a boy, move to Paris , where Nikopol finds her after a tip from Jill's doctor. Like you in the past, your child has blue, electrically charged hair. After a conversation between Nikopol and Jill you can see that the child turns into a bird of prey and kills a pigeon. In the final scene, Horus can be seen lying and showing weak signs of life.

Reviews

Mark R. Leeper wrote on rec.arts.movies.reviews in 2006 that it was rare that a film had so much to see and so little to think about. The plot he criticized as "tedious" (tedious) . He pointed out that in a virtual reality that consists only of zeros and ones, we are looking at the action, which consists predominantly of zeros.

David Cornelius wrote for Hollywood Bitchslap that Immortal is as incoherent as you rarely find it, but certainly beautiful.

James O'Ehley wrote for Sci-Fi Move Page that Immortal was a failure, but an interesting failure.

Cinema judged that the film was a “visually stunning, but failed attempt to establish CGI characters as equal actors”.

“'Immortal' is an exciting and visually fantastic science fiction fairy tale whose vision of the future can be compared with classics such as ' Metropolis ', ' Blade Runner ' or ' The Fifth Element '. Enki Bilal used the dark mood and the subtle humor of his first two volumes of the comic cycle 'Alexander Nikopol' for the screen. "

- Kino.de

Soundtrack

Sigur Rós - Hjartað Hamast (Bamm Bamm Bamm)

Awards

Thomas Kretschmann and Charlotte Rampling were nominated for the European Film Award in 2004. Jean-Pierre Fouillet was nominated for production design for the César in 2005.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ allocine.fr
  2. ↑ cinema.de
  3. ↑ kino.de