Blood Machines (2019)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2019
	Director: Seth Ickerman
	Actors: Elisa Lasowski, Anders Heinrichsen, Christian Erickson
	Country: F
	Genre: SF
	Conditions of visioning: 06.07.2020, NIFFF2020, 14" computer screen.
Synopsis: After escaping from its spaceship, an AI is hunted down across the galaxy by two hunters.
Review: What, a French colorful SF production, lasting only 50 minutes for an expedited punchline to the soundtrack of the artist Carpenter Brut highly influenced by John Carpenter's own music?? I must see it of course. And the NIFFF gave me this opportunity, like it allowed me to see John Carpenter himself live in 2016. It is futuristic, very graphical and colorful as promised and the soundtrack doesn't disappoint, to the point that the movie looks like a long video for an album of the artist. Why not, Daft Punk did it with Interstella 5555. But the sound is sometimes too loud that we barely hear the dialogs, I would have appreciated better a different mixing. Don't expect a cohesive SF story, the movie goes quickly metaphorical but it doesn't matter as long as the show goes on, and it does in the second act. The first and I third I found too, how to say... French. I don't know how to describe it but that's something I hate in French Cinema in general and in the Genre in particular. People speak too much, articulate too much and spend too much time showing off. Even though the movie is shot in English with native speakers, I could recognize this weakness. About the meaning of the movie: it has to have one because if you would watch it just for the light-and-sound show, you don't watch it for a linear story with a conclusion. I think it has something to do with the age-long struggle of women against men. More than that I can't tell, but the show distracted me anyway from looking too deep. To cut it short, awesome for a first film by Seth Ickerman and I will be on the lookout for more from him, if the French Cinema institution could revitalize its dying Genre.
Rating: 6 /10