

Direction
Krook lets his subjects hang themselves with their own optimism.
Production
Creepy-cozy aesthetic: sterile labs, lonely men, weeping androids.
Director
Justin Krook
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hiroshi Ishiguro's android twin has its own faculty ID card at Osaka University and technically outranks some human professors.
The film's 2019 release predates ChatGPT by three years, making its 'what if AI could talk?' framing almost unbearably quaint now.