Storyline
Smooth advertising executive David is in a relationship with yoga teacher Juliette. Then his eye is caught by Sophie, the girlfriend of his best friend Wim, a fashion photographer. Things get completely out of hand during a campaign for augmented reality-glasses, for which David designs an avatar of the coveted Sophie.
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Cast
Alexia Rasmussen, Nora Zehetner, Geneva Carr, H. Jon Benjamin, Meredith Hagner, Dan Gill, Reggie Watts, Benjamin Dickinson, Gavin McInnes, Paul Manza, Jay Eisenberg, Himanshu Suri, Jake Lodwick, Robert T. Bogue, Jessica Blank, Austin Ku, Sonja O'Hara, Jamie Dolan, Kathy Kelly Christos, Graig Churchill, Emily Davis, Dipali Desai
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Reviews
100
Visually scrumptious and slickly told, Creative Control illustrates the power of groundbreaking technology while also indicting its extremes.
83
Creative Control is a much more modest film (both visually and thematically) than something like Her or Ex Machina, but it never feels hamstrung by its limitations. If you go with its future-shock flow, it will cast a spell that feels like something between a dream and a nightmare.
75
The story is lightweight and flimsy, and the resolution of the plot is too on-the-nose, pat, but the unfeeling nature of this future — about halfway to “Her” if you remember that film — and the mechanical nature of interactions, even sex, make Creative Control one of the most interesting recent exercises in film futurism.
70
A contemplative tone, a zigzagging narrative, superb widescreen black-and-white cinematography and an infusion of dry humor make it feel genuinely fresh.
67
Creative Control ably captures the entitled narcissism of modern Brooklyn twentysomethings by way of a plausible near-future,
