Gemini Man
(Gemini Man)

While a blockbuster, Gemini Man is nonetheless a troubling act of cinema and meditation. The duel opposing Will Smith and his digital double reenacts the ancient myth of son against father, albeit in a world where flesh and image can no longer be told apart. An action movie, yet haunted by a question: what humanity remains when transmission is passed down through code, when memory and identity become data? Lee pushes his exploration of the virtual to the point where cinema becomes worryingly weightless, where the astonishing fluidity and hyperreal precision of movement create a space that feels almost spectral. Underneath the action film lies the anxiety of a world which, in seeking to replicate itself perfectly, risks erasing its own existence. Jérôme Baron