FRANCE: Renaissance. 2006

Director: Christian Volckman
Stars: It's animated stupid.
Release date: France - 15 March 2006
Genre: Animation/B&W/Action
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Holy crap. Sin City was a live action B&W comic come to life, well this is a B&W comic book come to life, literally. It's amazing looking. Incredibly done. It feels wierd, as though it was a rotoscoped version of an action flick. And at $14 million Euros, it's a hefty price tag for a French animated genre picture. Definitely a new way of animating, yet keeping an old film noir approach. Imagine Richard Linklater's recent fetish with animation, yet directed by Luc Besson in black & white. Just watch the damn trailer.

Synopsis
Paris, December 2037. Ilona Tasuievn, a young scientist jealoused by everyone for her beauty and intelligence, is brutally kidnapped. In a high-tech environment where every action is controlled and filmed, Karas, the criticized policeman who’s in charge of the investigation, feels soon a presence around... He’s not the only one on Ilona’s tracks, and his pursuers are ready for anything for arriving ahead of him.

The more he nears the truth, the more the noose is tightening : Ilona is the key of discovery which can make Man equal than God, the Renaissance protocol. The cop doesn’t know anymore if the missing young woman is victim or torturer. Angel or demon.

Finding her becomes a question of life or death for Karas, but maybe too for all our civilisation...

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