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Genres:
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Drama /
Romance /
Sci-Fi /
Thriller
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Director:
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Michael Winterbottom
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Actors:
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Togo Igawa,
Christopher Simpson,
Bruno Lastra,
Jeanne Balibar,
David Fahm,
Nabil Elouahabi,
Sarah Backhouse,
Jonathan Ibbotson,
Nina Fog,
Lien Nguyin,
Tim Robbins,
Samantha Morton,
Natalie Jackson Mendoza,
Om Puri,
Emil Marwa
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Duration:
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90 min.
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Rating:
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(6.3/10)102
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Plot Summary:
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In a near future, in a in all respects ruled sooner than a totalitarian government, checking of the genetic rules is mandatory to save any sort of imaginable relationship between manservant and helpmeet. The investigator from Seattle William travels to Shanghai to sift through the faking and stealing of curious Visas called "papelles". The energy suspect is Maria Gonzales, who works in the concern Sphinx, but William falls in romance for her and protects her. They be undergoing a hotheaded one night arise, and sooner they find that they are genetically incompatible to each other and they obta... in violated the Code 46.
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Tell me one thing about yourself
An unusually plausible science-fiction drama from Michael Winterbottom and Frank Cotterell-Boyce. In a corporate future, investigator Tim Robbins travels to Shanghai to uncover those responsible for distributing fraudulent visas - termed 'papelles' - to those whom the Sphinx corporation deems should not have them ('Sphinx knows best' is their appropriately condescending mantra). He encounters Samantha Morton's typically ethereal femme fatale and his investigation is soon thrown off course.
But Code 46 is not a thriller, indeed it is barely a romance. Instead it is a curious and compelling drama of ideas, revolving around genetics and social freedom and how the two may intersect sometime. The relationship between the characters is hinted at as being on a genetic l...
Intelligent and original sci-fi
Michael Winterbottom's smart and intriguing foray into the sci-fi genre stars Tim Robbins and Samantha Morton as the investigator and criminal having a forbidden love affair. Mostly shot in Shanghai and India, the film offers a weirdly convincing portrait of a future world where everyone is controlled by technology and forbidden to travel without the required clearance. People live in multi-cultural societies and speak in sentences that are a mixture of different languages with odd hybrid accents.
'Code 46' is beautifully shot and scored and the performances from Robbins and Morton are compelling. Frank Cottrell Boyce's screenplay is full of ideas, some of these ideas work while others don't, but it's gratifying to watch a film so determined and singular in i...
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