PREVIEW: Bigbug (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Dominique Pinon (Delicatessen), Elsa Zylberstein (I’ve Loved You So Long), Isabelle Nanty (Not on the Lips), Youssef Hajdi (Deerskin), Alban Lenoir (French Blood), François Levantal (A Very Long Engagement), Claire Chust (Problemos), Claude Perron (Amélie), Marysole Fertard (Savage Days), Helie Thonnat (Venise N’est Pas En Italie)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amélie), director, writer; Guillaume Laurant (A Very Long Engagement), writer; Frédéric Doniguian (Monsieur Papa) and Richard Grandpierre (Brotherhood of the Wolf), producers; Raphaël Beau (Micmacs), composer; Thomas Hardmeier (The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet), cinematographer; Hervé Schneid (Delicatessen), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

In the year 2050, an android uprising causes a group of bickering suburbanites to be holed up together when their well-intentioned household robots lock them inside for their own safety, but not all is as it seems…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Vivid French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Jeunet is back with a colourful sci-fi satire that contains plenty of the director’s trademark weirdness.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 11TH FEBRUARY 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

STREAMING EXCLUSIVELY ON NETFLIX

 

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