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MARS EXPRESS

Genre
Animation, Action, Science Fiction, Thriller and Mystery
Running time
85 minutes
Year
2023
Language
French
Country
France
Director
Jérémie Périn
Bio
Producer
Didier Creste
Cast
Léa Drucker, Mathieu Amalric
Scriptwriter
Laurent Sarfati, Jérémie Périn
Aline is a hard-bitten private detective with a drinking problem; her buddy Carlos is actually a collection of data scraped from a soldier who died in battle, reassigned to a cyborg’s body. Reluctantly joining forces with Roberta, a rogue hacker, the detectives uncover a fiendish plot to implant robots with code that will turn them savage, leading inevitably to war. Set in a distant future, when Mars is a good neighbourhood and Earth a mere slum, this stylishly animated sci-fi engages with questions that seem ripped from the news – If AI can do everything, what will humans do? Will they turn against us? – laced through an intricate thriller. With more than a whiff of anime, this is hard sci-fi at its otherworldly best.

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