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Equal parts Blade Runner and Masamune Shirow’s Appleseed, French director Jérémie Périn’s animated future noir looks at the immortal question of what happens when the created surpasses the creator. Detective Aline Ruby (Léa Drucker, currently on screens in the taboo sex thriller Last Summer) resurrects her dead partner (Daniel Njo Lobé) in robot form to track down a fugitive from Mars who has fled to Earth, and whose crimes may lead to a robot revolution. Free will and the nature of independent existence are discussed with cyberpunk panache. The AI apocalypse rarely looked cooler. – Richard Whittaker
