While currently watching the original series of The Outer Limits for the first time,I was pleased to find that this obscure French Sci-Fi title has recently gotten English subtitles, leading to me discovering the duties of the SPO.
View on the film:
Running at just over 58 minutes and made for the TV channel FR3, co-writer (with Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu) / director Andre Farwag displays an ingenuity in crossing multiple sub-genres of Sci-Fi with remarkable ease, from the striking, multi-coloured dystopia of the opening scanning the busy bodies of the SPO, to the Steadicam treading across a vast Post-Apocalypse style wasteland.
Featuring an impressive/ chilling extended shot of a stuntman on fire, Farwag takes the previously kooky presentation of the SPO forcing the consumer society to bond with their objects, and brilliantly twists it, into the edge of darkness macabre final murmur.
Despite being extremely popular In France,The Deep Sea Diver's Syndrome is currently the only novel by Serge Brussolo to have been translated into English.
Thankfully, the screenplay by Donnadieu & Farwagi offer a taster to the unpredictability in their adaptation which has made Brussolo, via recycling pushed to a satirical level of extreme in the refusal of the SPO for anything to be wasted, to the verging on an obsessive bond that consumers have with objects,which they will always be together with, in electric dreams.
View on the film:
Running at just over 58 minutes and made for the TV channel FR3, co-writer (with Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu) / director Andre Farwag displays an ingenuity in crossing multiple sub-genres of Sci-Fi with remarkable ease, from the striking, multi-coloured dystopia of the opening scanning the busy bodies of the SPO, to the Steadicam treading across a vast Post-Apocalypse style wasteland.
Featuring an impressive/ chilling extended shot of a stuntman on fire, Farwag takes the previously kooky presentation of the SPO forcing the consumer society to bond with their objects, and brilliantly twists it, into the edge of darkness macabre final murmur.
Despite being extremely popular In France,The Deep Sea Diver's Syndrome is currently the only novel by Serge Brussolo to have been translated into English.
Thankfully, the screenplay by Donnadieu & Farwagi offer a taster to the unpredictability in their adaptation which has made Brussolo, via recycling pushed to a satirical level of extreme in the refusal of the SPO for anything to be wasted, to the verging on an obsessive bond that consumers have with objects,which they will always be together with, in electric dreams.