Carre blanc

A Solair Films production in colaboration with Tarantula. (Worldwide sales: Coach 14, Paris.) Created by Benjamin Mamou, Jean-Baptiste Leonetti. Executive producer, Camille Havard Bourdon. Co-producers, Frederick Rouschop, Xavier Ruiz, Alexander Rodnyansky. Directed, compiled by Jean-Baptiste Leonetti.With: Sami Bouajila, Julie Gayet, Jean-Pierre Andreani, Carlos Leal, Dominique Paturel, Fejria Deliba, Valerie Bodson, Viviana Aliberti, Majid Hives, Adele Exarchopoulos, Nathalie Becue Prader. (French dialogue)A prominent film website describes the premise of "Carre blanc" thus: "Later on, society's weak are wiped out and employed for meat." This really is each one helluva false assumption, or it's symptomatic of author-director Jean-Baptiste Leonetti's excessively cryptic debut feature, for the reason that this type of major conceptual point is barely even recommended onscreen. Bleak, minimalist dystopian sci-fi a la "1984" and "THX-1138," pic epitomizes the carefully thought-out aesthetic package with almost zero curiosity about narrative and audience engagement. Adventurous genre fans will uncover it via disc or download a couple of is going to be rapt, many bored. As children, Philippe (Sami Bouajila) and Marie (Julie Gayet) met when she saved him from carrying out suicide as his mother had. 2 decades later, he's get to be the perfect managing tool of the all-pervasive corporation, submitting subordinates to psychologically and/or physically dangerous tests they cannot possibly pass, while she laments their childlessness and the behavior training towards the consuming machine. An initially striking, obtuse objet d'art, "Carre Blanc" soon develops turgid as you realizes the particular, sterile visual and ominous audio tactics are that's likely to "happen."Camera (color, HD), David Nissen editors, Alex Rodriguez, Eric Jacquemin music, Evgueni Galperine production designers, Marie Pierre Durand, Noelle Van Parijs. Examined at Toronto Film Festival (Vanguard), Sept. 14, 2011. Running time: 80 MIN. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com