A Hologram for the King

    A Hologram for the King
    2016

    Synopsis

    Alan Clay, a struggling American businessman, travels to Saudi Arabia to sell a new technology to the King, only to be challenged by endless Middle Eastern bureaucracy, a perpetually absent monarch, and a suspicious growth on his back.

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    Cast

    • Tom HanksAlan Clay
    • Sarita ChoudhuryDr. Zahra Hakeem
    • Sidse Babett KnudsenHanne
    • Ben WhishawDave
    • Tom SkerrittRon Clay
    • Tracey FairawayKitty Clay
    • David MenkinBrad
    • Omar ElbaYousef
    • Jane PerryRuby Clay
    • Amira El SayedMaha

    Recommandations

    • 88

      Chicago Sun-Times

      Writer-director Tom Tykwer is clearly a fan of the source material, and he has done an admirable job of taking a melancholy, beautifully rendered piece of prose and catapulting it to visual life.
    • 80

      Village Voice

      Tykwer sublimates what Eggers made explicit: the joblessness, the debt, the isolation. He knows the power of an image, a gesture, a brief exchange, so he captures those social themes in flashes, which ironically gives them new power.
    • 60

      New York Daily News

      Much like the technology in the title, "A Hologram for the King" flickers in and out of focus — sharp at times, but ultimately lacking resolution.
    • 60

      The Hollywood Reporter

      When it isn’t trying too hard to be instructive or jokey, Tykwer’s film fluently conveys the hard truth of diminished relevance, geopolitical as well as personal. Hanks’ portrayal of a man caught between utter defeat and a yearning to begin again is pitch-perfect.
    • 60

      Variety

      A Hologram for the King arrives at its feel-good conclusion honestly enough, but its cultural engagement feels tentative, even secondhand: The movie conjures no shortage of potent images, but push a bit deeper and your fist closes on empty air.
    • 58

      IndieWire

      A Hologram For the King never congeals into a single, involving story.
    • 50

      The Playlist

      Hanks brings to Clay a nervous energy, a sense of desperation to even his most outwardly optimistic of gestures, that nevertheless always seems tempered by a more sober inner awareness of his own failures. It’s a remarkable performance in a film that is unworthy of it.
    • 50

      Screen Daily

      As thoughtfully rendered as much of Hologram is, the film eventually succumbs to the material’s fundamental triteness, offering done-to-death life lessons about second chances and the value of broadening one’s perspective.

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