A corporate Death falls in love with her immortal employee. HR nightmare.
A young woman, elegant, cold and inhuman, who is none other than Death, reigns over a universe dominated by electronics, the firm Thanatos Unlimited Corporation. A file in a computer and life stops. But death is also capable of knowing love. Thus she keeps Robert, a worker in eternal youth and forces him to love her until he falls in love with Marie, a barmaid. But can we defy Death with impunity?
Production
Gloriously dated 70s corporate futurism aesthetic
Acting
Lugagne's glacial, terrifyingly elegant Death
Director
Jacques Ertaud
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Based on Théophile Gautier's 1836 tale, relocated to a dystopian corporate nightmare that now reads as prescient tech satire.
A rare female Death in cinema, predating Neil Gaiman's similar conception—her cold eroticism critiques how capitalism already commodifies life itself.
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