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The only film on the list that I’ve seen twice is a French sci-fi animation that was previously screened in Israel as part of the 2023 Jerusalem Film Festival and in a special screening at the Medev Utopia Film Festival. It’s a beautifully crafted futuristic noir film. Set about 170 years from today, a human private investigator and her robot partner (actually a man-made backup created after the original partner’s death) work together to investigate a murder mystery involving a malicious virus, enhanced memory, drugs, brain rentals, robot-liberating freedom fighters, and other future nightmares—and I haven’t even mentioned the monsters with artificial intelligence and creepy organic bodies that were created as replacements for “normal” metal robots.
If you like sci-fi, detective crime thrillers, and/or 2D animation, this movie has just about everything. First, the technical level is top notch, with expressive characters, smooth and elegant movement, and dark eighties colors. The voice acting is another upgrade – I could listen to a robot announcing “My name is Gilbert” in semi-synthesized French all day. But even the most beautiful animation in the world can’t last without a good story, so fortunately “Mars” has a great script too. The twists and turns build on each other without distracting from the characters’ individual stories, and it’s all complemented by clever world building that makes this futuristic city feel like a place where people actually live.
We could also talk about the topicality of the topic, but it’s worth remembering that this movie was written and produced before GPT chats had high school students around the world incorporating lies and doodling into their homework. His focus on AI and the relationship between humans and software isn’t so different from what we’ve seen in Blade Runner or Japanese anime series from decades ago, so don’t try to find insights in him that are particularly relevant to the current AI waves.
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