WHISPERING STAR, THE

Yoko (Megumi Kagurazaka of Guilty of Romance fame) is a robot employed by a courier company. In her interstellar ship, shaped like a little Japanese house, she scoots back and forth across the galaxy, delivering parcels and news to people everywhere. Yoko is terribly bored, and eventually can no longer resist looking inside the parcels to learn more about the very strange phenomenon that is human nature.

After the recent Ava (Ex Machina), Laura (Under the Skin) and Athena (TomorrowLand), it’s time for the director’s wife and muse, Megumi Kagurazaka (who has been our adopted national star, since her visit in 2011 for Guily of Romance), to join a select group of creatures from the future, feminine hybrid entities that force us to think about the present. The Whispering Star is a funny and playful existential science fiction fable loaded with impossible encounters. An interstellar journey in search of humanity that finds poetry far, far away, among the stars. Worth mentioning: the movie was shot near the evacuated zones around Fukushima. It was also part of an exhibition in Tokyo combining installations, performances and video. An otherworldly artistic experience that comes highly recommended. – Julien Fonfrède