Any Sci-Fi fans seen this? A friend recommends it:
Do you get showtime 3, channel 539 on direct TV? If you do, I highly
recommend you tivo "Immortal". It's on next saturday.
Here's a summary from a blog:
Immortel (Ad Vitam) (original French title) is a CGI and live
action film, directed by Enki Bilal from his own comics.
It's 2095 in New York a huge company controls the city that deals
in synthetic human parts (hense the CGI characters). Meanwhile a
pyramid full of Egyptian gods hangs in the sky, Horus who has been
sentenced to death, leaves to procreate. A Blue alien girl, Jill is
the subject of much fansicnation of a doctor who puts her through a
series of test. She has no memory and doesn't know where she came
from. Jill is also the focus of Horus' procreation attempts (because
one of her many talentes is the abiltiy to mate with gods) while
using and inhabiting the body of a recently unfrozen criminal
(Nikopol) who he released from hibernation....the way you do.
I found it quite visual stunning and atmospheric. The story's quite
good, surreal would be a good description. Bibal is part of a group
of comic artist's who didn't believe you had to explain things. But
the film storyline is much more cohesive than the orginal comics.
Adapted from bits of his Nikopol trilogy with some elements of his
more recent Hatzfeld Trilogy.
The CGI characters jar at first, but although not as fully rended
as we are used to from USA they had alot more presence and quirkiness
than their american counterparts.
Overall the melancholic style and French flair shine through.
It has shades of 5th Element, with the Egyptian thing.. But since
the original comics were made in the 1970's perhaps it's the other
way around. I was reminded of Moebius' comics all the way through. I
wasn't surprised to learn Bilal was heavily influenced by him early
on in his career.
Also, SHO3 is repeating "American Drug War," a good documentary on
the phony drug war in this country.
