2073, writer-director Asif Kapadia’s sui generis feature, is nothing if not ambitious. It offers viewers a numbingly bleak vision of the future 51 years from now, illustrated by a fictional framing device starring Samantha Morton, then explains how things got/will get that bad through actual recent archival footage and original interviews with an assortment of thinkers, journalists and activists. By comparison, George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel 1984 looks as jolly as a Peppa Pig picture book.
You can’t help but admire Kapadia’s commitment to feel-bad cinema, his refusal to end on any false note of hope. It’s all part of a deliberate strategy, according to an interview in the film’s press notes, to motivate the audience to do something, anything, to stop all this happening. But given how sinister the forces sowing the seeds of our future destruction are — rising autocracy, unregulated technology and looming climate...
You can’t help but admire Kapadia’s commitment to feel-bad cinema, his refusal to end on any false note of hope. It’s all part of a deliberate strategy, according to an interview in the film’s press notes, to motivate the audience to do something, anything, to stop all this happening. But given how sinister the forces sowing the seeds of our future destruction are — rising autocracy, unregulated technology and looming climate...
- 9/4/2024
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Drones fill the orange-tinted sky as citizens are forced to hide from authorities in Neon’s 2073 trailer. Directed by Oscar winner Asif Kapadia, 2073‘s trailer teases a terrifying world that is, unfortunately, not all that difficult to imagine. As the trailer declares, “This is not fiction. This is not a documentary. This is a warning.”
Neon offers this synopsis:
“It’s the year 2073, and the worst fears of modern life have been realized. Surveillance drones fill the burnt orange skies and militarized police roam the wrecked streets, while survivors hide away underground, struggling to remember a free and hopeful existence. In this ingenious mixture of visionary science fiction and speculative nonfiction, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Asif Kapadia transports us to a future foreshadowed by the terrifying realities of our present moment. Two-time Academy Award nominee Samantha Morton plays a survivor besieged by nightmare visions of the past—a past...
Neon offers this synopsis:
“It’s the year 2073, and the worst fears of modern life have been realized. Surveillance drones fill the burnt orange skies and militarized police roam the wrecked streets, while survivors hide away underground, struggling to remember a free and hopeful existence. In this ingenious mixture of visionary science fiction and speculative nonfiction, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Asif Kapadia transports us to a future foreshadowed by the terrifying realities of our present moment. Two-time Academy Award nominee Samantha Morton plays a survivor besieged by nightmare visions of the past—a past...
- 9/2/2024
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
The event is entitled ‘when dance meets film’.
Filmmaker Asif Kapadia and choreographer Akram Khan will lead the conversation of this year’s Lff Connects talk at the BFI London Film Festival on October 7.
Titled ‘when dance meets film’. the event will explore the pair’s collaboration on Creature, directed by Kapadia and based on the English National Ballet 2021 stage production by Khan. It is making its world premiere at the Lff.
The film’s cinematographer Daniel Landin and editor Sylvie Landra will join the conversation to be moderated by Bafta’s head of programming, Mariayah Kaderbhai.
Previously announced speakers...
Filmmaker Asif Kapadia and choreographer Akram Khan will lead the conversation of this year’s Lff Connects talk at the BFI London Film Festival on October 7.
Titled ‘when dance meets film’. the event will explore the pair’s collaboration on Creature, directed by Kapadia and based on the English National Ballet 2021 stage production by Khan. It is making its world premiere at the Lff.
The film’s cinematographer Daniel Landin and editor Sylvie Landra will join the conversation to be moderated by Bafta’s head of programming, Mariayah Kaderbhai.
Previously announced speakers...
- 10/4/2022
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Reflecting the growing presence of French players at the Oscars, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) will host a live viewing party in Paris on Sunday for its French members and industry guests for the first time ever.
The Parisian Oscar viewing party will be held at Blanche, a mansion that used to be the oldest and most legendary film school in Paris and was turned into a lavish private club.
Showcasing an Art Nouveau façade in the heart of Paris, Blanche boasts a state-of-the-art projection room, as well as a lively and faceted bar and mirrored tables. Before the ceremony, guests will treated with a dinner at Bb, the venue’s fancy restaurant, and will enjoy Brad Pitt’s Fleur de Miraval, the official champagne of the 94th Oscars, to get ready for the all-nighter.
“After years of hosting an Oscar party in London, we’re...
The Parisian Oscar viewing party will be held at Blanche, a mansion that used to be the oldest and most legendary film school in Paris and was turned into a lavish private club.
Showcasing an Art Nouveau façade in the heart of Paris, Blanche boasts a state-of-the-art projection room, as well as a lively and faceted bar and mirrored tables. Before the ceremony, guests will treated with a dinner at Bb, the venue’s fancy restaurant, and will enjoy Brad Pitt’s Fleur de Miraval, the official champagne of the 94th Oscars, to get ready for the all-nighter.
“After years of hosting an Oscar party in London, we’re...
- 3/25/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
For its first act, Till Death tries keeping things muted. S.K. Dale directs his cast to deliver lines as if they’re somewhere between whispering and talking; cinematographer Jamie Cairney shoots with the brand of ruby-tinged glossiness that the last decade has really leaned into as a visual shorthand for wealth and privilege; dialogue from screenwriter Jason Carvey funnels us bits of exposition.
Emma (Megan Fox) was collateral damage in a botched robbery 10 years ago. She married Mark (Eoin Macken), a lawyer involved in the case, just over a year later, which went south. She turned to having an affair with one of Mark’s colleagues, Tom (Aml Ameen), but now she’s decided to cut it off. She even turns down plans to see Tom the next day, and when he asks why, she breathes while facing away from him: “‘Cause it’s my anniversary.”
This sort of dialogue continues,...
Emma (Megan Fox) was collateral damage in a botched robbery 10 years ago. She married Mark (Eoin Macken), a lawyer involved in the case, just over a year later, which went south. She turned to having an affair with one of Mark’s colleagues, Tom (Aml Ameen), but now she’s decided to cut it off. She even turns down plans to see Tom the next day, and when he asks why, she breathes while facing away from him: “‘Cause it’s my anniversary.”
This sort of dialogue continues,...
- 6/30/2021
- by Matt Cipolla
- The Film Stage
UniFrance, the French film promotion org, joined forces with the The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to host events on March 7-8 in Paris which aimed at shining a spotlight on French female directors, producers, talent, artists and technicians.
The events, which were attended by many French students and young filmmakers at the Meurice Hotel in Paris, underscored the Academy’s ambition to increase its presence in Europe where it has many members.
One of the highlights of the two-day program was French-Senegalese writer/director Maïmouna Doucouré (pictured) receiving the Academy Gold Fellowship for Women on March 8, the International Women’s Day. The prize was given as part of the Academy Women’s Initiative which is supported by Swarovski and aims at creating opportunities for female filmmakers to connect, share their stories and celebrate inclusion.
Doucouré is currently finishing her feature debut “Cuties,” whose screenplay already won the...
The events, which were attended by many French students and young filmmakers at the Meurice Hotel in Paris, underscored the Academy’s ambition to increase its presence in Europe where it has many members.
One of the highlights of the two-day program was French-Senegalese writer/director Maïmouna Doucouré (pictured) receiving the Academy Gold Fellowship for Women on March 8, the International Women’s Day. The prize was given as part of the Academy Women’s Initiative which is supported by Swarovski and aims at creating opportunities for female filmmakers to connect, share their stories and celebrate inclusion.
Doucouré is currently finishing her feature debut “Cuties,” whose screenplay already won the...
- 3/10/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
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