2017 · drama · mystery · sci-fi
Marjorie Prime
Directed by Michael Almereyda1h 39m2017
A service which creates holographic projections of late family members allows an elderly woman to spend time with a younger version of her deceased husband.
Our read: Marjorie Prime (2017) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive drama · mystery · sci-fi entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, gentle drama / mystery, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- measured
- gentle
- intimate
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