Michael Winterbottom's moody meditation on love in the future imperfect — a future that looks very like the outer edges of the present — combines a doomed, fleeting romance in the BRIEF ENCOUNTER (1945) mode by way of dystopian visions like BLADE RUNNER (1982) and ALPHAVILLE (1965). In a time when most children are the product of in-vitro fertilization, citizens are accounted for down to the last strand of DNA and "Code 46" regulations govern marriage and childbearing so instances of inadvertent genetic incest can be averted. The ozone layer is so depleted that the standard cycle of sleeping and waking has been reversed, travel is tightly regulated and the world's de...
Released:
2004
Rated:
R
Length:
92 mins