2022 · sci-fi · comedy · disaster
Bigbug
Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet1h 50m2022
Set in the world of 2045, where communities have robotic helpers, a group of suburbanites are locked in for their protection by their household robots, while a rogue, self-aware AI android revolt uprising takes place outside.
Our read: Bigbug (2022) reads as a warm, kinetic, surreal sci-fi · comedy · disaster entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, kinetic, measured sci-fi / comedy, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- warm
- brisk
- inventive
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“You want whimsical French dystopia with retro robots and cozy domestic chaos.”
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