Saturday 5 May 2012

Electroma

This Daft Punk film is iconic and cult instantly.

Plot: Two robots (Daft Punk's characters on stage), one gold, one silver, drive through the back roads of the American west in search of a new life, something different. Pulling into a small town, populated by their kin-folk (all robots, male, female, child alike), Hero Robot No 1 and Hero Robot No 2 enter a facility designed to alter their appearance (plastic surgery for androids). Leaving the building, the pair draw looks from the residents as they now appear human-ish and are soon chased.

I'll not tell you any more as this feature is wonderfully creative and intuitive. Told entirely through blinding cinematography and music (as you would expect from a pair of audio supremacists), each and every image is a statement of style and worthy of framing on your wall.

Look out for Interstella 5555, equally superb.

Fun Fact: Shot in 11 days, with the film's midnight Paris screenings running for 6 months.


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