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Director: Solveig Nordlund
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
More of an extrapolation than a straight adaptation, Swedish director Nordlund's film of JG Ballard's 1975 short story fleshes out and feminises a dystopian vision. In a near-future world headed for extinction, because most children are being born sightless mutants, a young professional couple hide out in a seaside hotel, in the desperate hope that the wife's seventh (illegal) pregnancy will produce a healthy baby. Nordlund's sympathetic but never slavish vision blends with Acácio de Almeida's moody, digitally enhanced photography to create a Ballardian world where composition, framing and distorted colours evoke psychological states as much as concrete reality. A world where phosphorescent vapour trails from the aviator-doctor's plane hint at a possible alternative future. Films of Ballard's Super-Cannes and Cocaine Nights are promised, but until then, this is a must for the author's fans.Author: NF
Cast & crew
Director: Solveig Nordlund
Producer: Maria João Mayer, Solveig Nordlund, François d'Artemare
Cast: Margarida Marinho, Miguel Guilherme, Rui Morrison, Rita So, Canto e Castro, Ismael Lourenço, Sheila Buchanan, María Duarte Pereira, Fernanda Duarte, José Pinto, Isabel de Castro full cast
Genre(s): Science Fiction
Duration: 80 mins
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