Synopsis
To find Ilona and unlock the secrets of her disappearance, Karas must plunge deep into the parallel worlds of corporate espionage, organized crime and genetic research - where the truth imprisons whoever finds it first and miracles can be bought but at a great price.
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Cast
- Robert DauneyKaras
- Clémentine BaertNurses (voice)
- Chris BearneParisian (voice)
- Julian NestParisian (voice)
- Sean PertweeMontoya (voice)
- Marc CassotJonas Muller (voice)
- Pax BaldwinFarfella Boy (voice)
- Patrick FloersheimBarthélémy Karas
- Laura BlancBislane Tasuiev
- Virginie MeryIlona Tasuiev
Recommendations
- 88
ReelViews
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
One of the year’s more luscious releases, offering not just the sleekest car chase but the most romantic of rainstorms. - 70
Variety
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 A.V. Club
Some kind of wonderment. - 60
Los Angeles Times
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. - 58
Entertainment Weekly
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 Hollywood Reporter
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
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.
