Synopsis
Marc, a successful, ambitious man, is diagnosed with terminal cancer, and is given a few months to live. Unable to accept death, he decides to cryogenically freeze himself. The love of his life is devastated. Seventy years later, Marc becomes the first cryogenic resuscitated person in history. But this doesn't happen in the idealized way he dreamt of.
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Cast
- Tom HughesMarc Jarvis
- Charlotte Le BonElizabeth
- Oona ChaplinNaomi
- Barry WardWest
- Julio PerillánDr. Serra
- Rafael CebrianJeffrey
- Bruno SevillaCharles
- Daniel HorvathSurgeon
- Alex HafnerThe Elderly Hornball
- Godeliv Van den BrandtSigourney
Recommendations
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The Film Stage
This is a film of philosophical rumination as its hopeful characters find themselves living in an imperfect world of their own creation. - 70
Screen Daily
Well-acted, it lacks the standout performances or star presences which propelled the tonally-similar Ex Machina to more than cult success. While it will play to fans of cerebral science fiction, it may be less grabby for general audiences. - 70
The New York Times
Like a “Black Mirror” episode combined with a philosophy seminar, Realive has plenty of brains. Yet it has a heart, too, and that adds a surprising amount of emotion to this above-average science-fiction film. - 70
Village Voice
Realive’s greatest strength is that it takes its premise so seriously, engaging with its moral and spiritual questions. - 63
Movie Nation
Technically spare and smart, fascinating in the dilemma it wrestles with, Realive is, in the end, too chilly to warm up to. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
This stylish chamber piece plays like a cross between Ex Machina and The Tree of Life, mixing a cleverly conceived biotechnical fable with sun-dappled sentimentalism that doesn’t always resonate like it should. - 50
The Playlist
Though undeniably watchable...Mateo Gil’s film fails to rise above the well-trodden genre film language nor does it meaningfully contribute to its central existential questions on mortality . - 50
Variety
Realive ultimately aims to be all about matters of the heart, and in that realm Gil’s imagination proves disappointingly limited.
