2016 · sci-fi
Realive
Directed by Mateo Gil1h 52m2016
Marc, a successful, ambitious man, is diagnosed with terminal cancer, and is given a few months to live. Unable to accept death, he decides to cryogenically freeze himself. The love of his life is devastated. Seventy years later, Marc becomes the first cryogenic resuscitated person in history. But this doesn't happen in the idealized way he dreamt of.
Our read: Realive (2016) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive sci-fi entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured sci-fi, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
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- measured
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