Like writer-director Lynn Hershman Leeson's terminally goofy CONCEIVING ADA (1999), this stylish but silly picture posits an atavistic bond between women and computers, somehow rooted in the mysteries of creation. Sometime in the near future, dowdy, overworked computer genius Dr. Rosetta Stone (ADA star Tilda Swinton) has used her own DNA to program three self-replicating automata named Ruby, Olive and Marin (all played by Swinton in various wigs), whom she hopes will help her with day-to-day programming drudgery. But the glamorous Sim-girls, who lounge around their color-coordinated virtual rooms in color-coded kimonos matched to their names and pointy fingernails, ...
Released:
2004
Rated:
R
Length:
85 mins