
Threatening letters, phone calls in the middle of the night... Who is threatening engineer Stamatiad?
The director's latest is a dreamlike exploration of a consciousness torn between two homelands, and the implications of history and memory suspended in limbo.
White audiences saw Peola’s mixed-race passing as a Black woman’s struggle to be white. Black audiences saw it as the rebellion of a Black woman trying to gain privileges only given to white people.
Overall, Altered Carbon: Resleeved is pretty “meh.” It’s cool and all that it takes a different approach from the TV show to make it animated rather than live action, but it doesn’t help that the animation looks like something from a video game.
The repeated actions, the blood on the petals, the rustling under the floor…An ambient short horror film takes us into another realm.
This film is a splendid mix of mediums, but its strength lies in its simplicity and beautiful message of closeness.