2020 · sci-fi · drama · fantasy
Archive
Directed by Gavin Rothery1h 49m2020
2038: George Almore is working on a true human-equivalent AI, and his latest prototype is almost ready. This sensitive phase is also the riskiest as he has a goal that must be hidden at all costs—being reunited with his dead wife.
Our read: Archive (2020) reads as a sombre, steady, surreal sci-fi · drama · fantasy entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured sci-fi / drama, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- intense
- surreal
- twisty
- epic-stakes
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