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Daft Punk's Electroma (2006)
Director: Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, Thomas Bangalter
Movie review
From Time Out London
If the wise-cracking, bone-crunching action of ‘Transformers’ is at one end of the robot movie continuum, ‘Daft Punk’s Electroma’ is right down the other. This flagrantly arty anatomy of an AI existential crisis was conceived and directed by the French techno-pop duo and, although neither they nor, more surprisingly, their songs appear in it, the film’s glinting melancholy and precision-tooled absurdities seem consistent with their music. The band’s familiar visor-clad mechanical personae are cast here as road-movie wanderers, pitching up at a California desert town in their vintage Ferrari and scandalising the locals – all robots too – with a shameless desire to be human, expressed through the laboriously-applied and none too convincing latex face masks in which they parade down the street. Banished and dejected, the duo strike out into the desert… A self-consciously formalist exercise nodding at the likes of ‘2001’, ‘The Passenger’ and ‘Gerry’, ‘Electroma’ is a gorgeously photographed trip whose careful soundtrack – from Mayfield and Eno to Haydn and Chopin – contributes to a surprisingly clear emotional narrative given the lack of dialogue and, indeed, human faces. Perhaps best viewed at the end of a long night, though.Author: Ben Walters
Time Out London Issue 1928: August 1-7 2007
Cast & crew
Director: Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, Thomas Bangalter
Producer: Paul Hahn
Cast: Michael Reich, Ritche Lago Bautista, Daniel Doble, Athena Stamos full cast
Genre(s): Science Fiction, Drama
Duration: 75 mins
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