Code 46 (Blu-ray) R
How do you solve a crime when the last thing you want to know is the truth?
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 33 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 16, 2016
- Originally Released: 2003
- Label: Olive
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Tim Robbins & Samantha Morton | |
Performer: | Om Puri, Jeanne Balibar, Essie Davis, Emil Marwa, David Fahm & Benedict Wong | |
Directed by | Michael Winterbottom | |
Screenwriting by | Frank Cottrell Boyce | |
Composition by | Stephen Hilton & David Holmes | |
Cameo: | Mick Jones | |
Produced by | Andrew Eaton | |
Director of Photography: | Alwin H. Küchler & Marcel Zyskind | |
Executive Production by | Robert Jones & David M. Thompson |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/4 --
Winterbottom and screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce sell the sci-fi but botch the interpersonal.
Houston Chronicle
[I]ngeniously designed and photographed...
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: C+ --
A luxurious sight to behold.
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Lessons of Darkness
Rating: 2/4 --
More a collage than a movie.
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Denver Post
Rating: 2/4 --
a visually striking, but emotionally flat mash-up of romantic drama, film noir, and science fiction that sounds much more interesting than it turns out to be
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Q Network Film Desk
Rating: C --
It's a common enough problem in sci-fi movies. A filmmaker creates a totally convincing world but can't find a compelling story to put in it.
Denver Rocky Mountain News
Satisfyingly cinematic
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Urban Cinefile
Product Description:
Set in Shanghai in the near future, CODE 46 takes place in a world where in-vitro fertilization, embryo splitting, and cloning have become so widespread that the government monitors all pregnancies to avoid incestuous births, whether on purpose or accidental. In Michael Winterbottom's science-fiction love story, Tim Robbins stars as Will, a fraud investigator who shows up at the huge Sphinx corporation to find out which employee has been making fake papelles--identity papers that allow people to travel. With an empathy virus inside of him so he can read people's minds, Will discovers that Maria Gonzalez (Samantha Morton) is the culprit, but he instantly falls in love with her and turns in someone else in her place, leading to a dangerous affair that jeopardizes his family, his career, and his life.
The blossoming romance between Will and Maria is reminiscent of the classic BRIEF ENCOUNTER, in which two people are willing to risk so much for true love. Winterbottom, who previously scored such indie hits as 24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE and WONDERLAND, combines with screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce, Academy Award winner Robbins, and Oscar nominee Morton in creating a unique vision of a technologically advanced but emotionally vapid future--except for those citizens who have been banished to the outside, where they struggle every day but have a greater understanding of what's real. CODE 46 is filled with twists, with the unexpected waiting around every corner, but at the heart of the film is the heartbreaking relationship between two compelling cinematic characters.
The blossoming romance between Will and Maria is reminiscent of the classic BRIEF ENCOUNTER, in which two people are willing to risk so much for true love. Winterbottom, who previously scored such indie hits as 24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE and WONDERLAND, combines with screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce, Academy Award winner Robbins, and Oscar nominee Morton in creating a unique vision of a technologically advanced but emotionally vapid future--except for those citizens who have been banished to the outside, where they struggle every day but have a greater understanding of what's real. CODE 46 is filled with twists, with the unexpected waiting around every corner, but at the heart of the film is the heartbreaking relationship between two compelling cinematic characters.
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