2016 · sci-fi · drama · thriller
Ares
Directed by Jean-Patrick Benes1h 20m2016
In a near future, the world order has changed. With its 10 millions of unemployed citizens, France has now become a poor country. Its people wavers between rebellion and resignation and find an outlet in the shape of TV broadcast ultra brutal fights in which the players are legally doped and unscrupulous.
Our read: Ares (2016) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive sci-fi · drama · thriller entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, measured sci-fi / drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
- cold
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