| Bilgi :When a young researcher is kidnapped, Officer Bartholomew Karas - a specialist in hostage retrieval - is personally requested by giant multinational, and the girl's employer, Avalon to track her down. As the case unravels the line between truth and lies blur and the motives for her kidnapping become harder to discern. Sin City, Philip K. Dick, Blade Runner, right back to the film noir detective stories told as cinema was growing up. All of them thrown into the melting pot to stoke the stylistic fire of Renaissance, one of the year's most exciting sci-fi stories. Another film keen to combine key-frame animation with real life, Renaissance does away with the live action elements of Sky Captain or Mirrormask instead capturing actors digitally and placing them in a monochrome world that's quite unlike anything we've seen on the big screen. Even Robert Rodriguez found shades of grey in Sin City, but here jet black and bright white are the only two colours in the spectrum.
Director Christian Volckman resists the temptation to push the CG too far, though. Paris of 2054 is brilliantly realised and amazingly impressive but the camera moves are modest, the action plausible and there's a gravity to the environment. It's as though this is a film shot in a real future city with a fancy filter on the camera, it's not long before the animation takes a back seat to the story. A film for fans of cinema and sci-fi, Renaissance is visually stunning and wonderfully intriguing. It's a good time for digital animation, between Sin City, A Scanner Darkly and now Renaissance cinematic potential is expanding exponentially. This is a simply outstanding film that can't be missed. |
