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Escape From the 21st Century
(Cong 21 Shi Ji an Quan Che Li)
Yang Li
- 2024
- China
- Science-fiction / Action
- 1h38mn
- Original version with French subtitles
- Color
European premiere
In 1999, three teenagers fall into somewhat toxic water and come out with the superpower to travel through space and time. They find themselves 20 years later on planet K, eerily similar to Earth, where they’ve retained their teenage souls in adult bodies. In this permanent come and go, saving the world is within their reach…
Fill a shaker with comedy, action, science-fiction, teen movies, a twist of superheroism and animation and you’ll obtain a zany cocktail, packed with special effects, that seems to catapult us from one comic book panel to another. But when the foolish teenage dimension veers towards a disenchanted more punk atmosphere, the refusal to grow up also reveals resistance to submission and obedience. And what if Chinese director Yang Li’s film was beautifully cryptic? Welcome to planet K!
Screenings
11/09 • 21h45 • Screen 500
14/09 • 19h15 • Screen 500
Credits
- With : Elane Zhong, Ruoyun Zhang, Yanmanzi Zhu, Yang Song, Leon Lee...
- Screenplay : Yang Li
- Photography : Saba Mazloum
- Editing : Shang Huang
- Music by : Xiao'ou Hu
- Production : Ann An, Taojing Chen, Lizhou Hu, Lu Liu, Dede Nickerson
