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Synopsis
Karsh, an innovative businessman and grieving widower, builds a device to contact the dead in a shroud
IMDb editor Arno Kazarian gives brief glimpses of 12 films he screened at the 2024 New York Film Festival, including “Anora” and the dangerous, strangely erotic “Misericordia.” Diane Kruger replaced Léa Seydoux in her role.
Quoted on Film Junk Podcast: Episode 961: In a Violent Nature + TIFF 2024 (2024)
It’s not a terrible film at its core, the problem is that it’s made up of so many ideas and themes that it’s hard not to get lost in the whole mess.
It’s a critique of technological advancement, AI, privacy, and data protection
Spyware, (experimental) surgery and health, the Chinese, capitalism, rich people, modern society and so on and so forth…
You can consider this a “so bad it’s good” film, at least that’s how I see it, I certainly didn’t suffer from it
The bad script doesn’t help either, the dialogues can be stupid or just plain exposition, the story jumps sloppily between characters and plot lines and I know (or at least think) that some dialogues are self-aware and don’t take themselves seriously, which made the film cheesy, funny (the audience laughed from time to time) and frankly entertaining.