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Renaissance
Miramax Films
MPAA RATING: R for some violent images, sexuality, nudity and language
Starring
Daniel Craig,
Catherine McCormack,
Romola Garai,
Jonathan Pryce,
Ian Holm,
and
Rick Warden
Renaissance is a bold vision of a stark near future drenched in hidden secrets and technological frontiers. It takes film noir to its most stylized edge, utilizing live action motion capture, animated in 3D and rendered in high contrast black and white to create graphic novel come-to-life. (Miramax)
| GENRE(S): |
Action
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Animation
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Drama
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Foreign
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Sci-fi
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Suspense/Thriller
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Alexandre de La Patellière
Mathieu Delaporte
Jean-Bernard Pouy (adaptation)
Patrick Raynal (adaptation)
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Christian Volckman
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| RELEASE DATE: |
Theatrical: September 22, 2006
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| RUNNING TIME: |
105 minutes, B/W |
| ORIGIN: |
France / UK / Luxembourg |

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ReelViews
James Berardinelli
The film's look is impressive; it's the most successful rotoscoping effort to date (far surpassing Richard Linklater's duo of "Waking Life" and "A Scanner Darkly"), and causes every frame to drip atmosphere.

80
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
One of the year’s more luscious releases, offering not just the sleekest car chase but the most romantic of rainstorms.

75
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Gorgeous and menacing at the same time.

75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
The result is something both fluid and stark, cinematic and comic book-y, and incredible.

70
Variety
Lisa Nesselson
A melancholy actioner that shines a new light on film noir. A sort of "The Third Man" for the 21st century, chiaroscuro curio's level of graphic invention is exceeded only by its pleasingly mournful approach.

67
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Noel Murray
Some kind of wonderment.

63
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Stark eye candy of the first order, the film is saddled with the oldest story this side of "Blade Runner." Still, comic-book fanboys and graphic designers with time to kill should feel no shame in checking this one out.

60
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Crust
A visually wondrous experience in high-contrast black and white, bogged down by a slow, underwrought story and uninvolving characters. It would be easy to dismiss it as another great-looking film with little else to offer, but that wouldn't be entirely true.

60
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Volckman and Miance are undoubtedly superb draftsmen; what they need is a writer of comparable skill.

58
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Connoisseurs of digital animation, graphic novels, and the history of dystopian art will have plenty to discuss about Christian Volckman's visually striking, technically impressive black-and-white animated feature Renaissance…But no one will be talking about the movie's banal plot, the trite dialogue, or any of the indistinguishable characters who offer a bleak futuristic vision of cinema that's all style, no soul.

50
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
Over the course of 105 minutes, the brutal high contrast begins to strain the eyes. Effectively moody as it is, the style makes a convoluted story of corporate greed, high-tech espionage and science run amok even more difficult to follow.

50
The Hollywood Reporter
Bernard Besserglik
Pitched as "animation for adults," Renaissance will find an audience among those in the 20-35 age group who enjoy graphic novels, but will disappoint anyone hoping for emotional or intellectual sustenance.

50
Village Voice
Robert Wilonsky
For a little while, the film is dazzling. Then it's dizzying. Then it's just kind of . . . wearying. That's not because it's in black-and-white; so was "Sin City". There's just something terribly, tragically dull about Renaissance.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
Although intriguing to look at, Renaissance -- the latest animated film geared to adult audiences -- is undone by a plot that is ridiculously hard to follow and hackneyed.

50
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
With its halfhearted script, stiff performances and overlong running time, this is the kind of movie that's simultaneously dazzling to look at, and increasingly tough to sit through.

50
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
A fumbling attempt to create the European equivalent of a Japanese manga thriller in the conspiratorial mold of "Akira" and "Ghost in the Shell" has a stunning look.

40
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
The director is Christian Volckman, whose skills as an animator greatly exceed his grasp of an idea worth pursuing.


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