Samuel works in Brussels as a pharmaceutical delivery man. His gorgeous girlfriend Mireille heads off to New York to intern at a prestigious architecture firm. Shortly after her departure, Sam's computer is hacked. A series of rather dodgy IT-guys fail to protect his wireless network. The mysterious hacker seems intent on screwing up Samuel's life and his relationship with Mireille. Paranoia kicks in. Sam starts to suspect his neighbors and gets obsessed with WiFi-rays... Love, paranoia and two lovers separated by an ocean of communication devices.
Acting
Schoenaerts simmers with unreliable-narrator perfection
Cinematography
Bleak Brussels apartments as emotional prison
Sound
Radio static becomes a character, not ambiance
Director
Alex Stockman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Stockman shot on location in his own Brussels apartment building, using actual neighbors as extras. The WiFi interference effects were captured in-camera, not added in post.
Released pre-Snowden (2010), Pulsar now reads as eerily prophetic about everyday surveillance. It's essentially a mumblecore Repulsion for the router generation.
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