Dante 01 (2008)

Calificación de los usuarios:

5.0/10   

Director:

Marc Caro

Escritores:

Marc Caro (screenplay)
Pierre Bordage (screenplay) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

2 enero 2008 (France)

Género:

Ciencia-Ficción | Suspenso

Plot:

Deep space, at the edge of the galaxy. The future. A new prisoner arrives on top security prison ship and psychiatric research unit Dante 01...

Plot Keywords:

Space | Prison | Criminal Psychiatric Institute | Space Station | Christian Film

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Visually stunning, but feels like half a movie

Reparto

Lambert Wilson	...	Saint-Georges
Linh Dan Pham	...	Elisa
Simona Maicanescu	...	Perséphone
Dominique Pinon	...	César
Bruno Lochet	...	Bouddha
François Levantal	...	Lazare
Gérald Laroche	...	Charon
François Hadji-Lazaro	...	Moloch
Lotfi Yahya Jedidi	...	Raspoutine (as Lotfi Yahya-Jedidi)
Yann Collette	...	Attila
Dominique Bettenfeld	...	BR
Antonin Maurel	...	CR

MPAA:

Rated R for violence, some disturbing images, language and brief nudity.

Duración:

82 min

País:

France

Idioma:

Francés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital | DTS

Clasificación:

France:Unrated (with warning) | Finland:K-15 | Germany:16 | USA:R

Compañía:

Eskwad

Trivialidades:

Visa d'exploitation en France: N° 114497

Visually stunning, but feels like half a movie

So, there is this space prison filled with bald criminals...heard this one before? Corporate scientist Elisa (Linh Dan Pham) arrives on a prison ship with plans of using the felons as guinea pigs for a new DNA altering serum. Also arriving on the shuttle is new prisoner St. Georges (Lambert Wilson). Quickly thrown into the tiny populace, the prisoners notice something is not right with the new inmate when he begins miraculously healing other inmates.

Marc Caro - co-director of the DELICATESSEN and THE CITY OF LOST CHILDREN - makes his long awaited return to feature film-making but, unfortunately, this seems a step back. The film is visually stunning but the religious allegory heavy plot doesn't do it any favors as Caro seems to be mimicking 2001 and SOLARIS. This moves along at a pretty deliberate pace until an ending pops up that will make you scramble for the DVD menu, thinking you've inadvertently skipped a chapter. It literally comes out of nowhere and you can almost hear the money men pulling out of the project (reportedly last minute financial woes forced Caro to change his original ending). Interestingly, the US DVD has a 30-minute "making of" extra and co-writer Pierre Bordage mentions this was a project originally developed for Alejandro Jodorowsky. There is a great cast including DELICATESSEN lead Dominique Pinon and DELLAMORTE co-star François Hadji-Lazaro.