Set in the world of 2045, where communities have robotic helpers, a group of suburbanites are locked in for their protection by their household robots, while a rogue, self-aware AI android revolt uprising takes place outside.
Production
Gloriously tactile retrofuturist sets—no green screen soullessness here.
Costume
The robots look like 1950s vacuum cleaners having existential crises.
Direction
Jeunet's whimsical fingerprints smeared all over dystopian chrome.
Director
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Isabelle Nanty
Françoise
Elsa Zylberstein
Alice Barelli
Claude Perron
Monique
Stéphane De Groodt
Max
Youssef Hajdi
Victor Barelli
Claire Chust
Jennifer
François Levantal
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Alban Lenoir
Greg
Marysole Fertard
Nina Barelli
Hélie Thonnat
Léo
Juliette Wiatr
La présentatrice de Galaxy
André Dussollier
Einstein (voice)
Benoît Allemane
Nestor (voice)
James Champel
Nettoyeur Howard V2 (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jeunet hadn't directed a feature in nearly a decade; this was his Netflix comeback after fighting for final cut.
The film satirizes French bourgeois comfort so specifically that international audiences often miss the class warfare punchlines.
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