The Devil's Game
It has been a long time coming for director Marc Caro [City of Lost Children and Delicatessen] to get behind the camera and direct his new film Dante 01. The film offers a re-interpretation at the first cantica of the Divine Comedy, setting three circles of Dante’s Inferno in a futuristic, orbiting psychiatric hospital.
There is a short interview over at Cineuropa today. The director talks about his film, the challenge of the small budget, the nature of the science in his film and its nods to other science fiction films. He also cites the influence of the anime films of Japanese directors Satoshi Kon and Katsuhiro Otomo. You can read the brief interview following the link below.
Dante 01 is a space prison drift in the suffocating atmosphere of the hostile planet called Dante. Inside, six of the most dangerous criminals of the surrounding worlds are used as guinea-pigs with obscure experiments. A resistance is organized around César, a psychopath manipulator. But its authority it’s called into question by the arrival of Saint Georges, a mysterious prisoner possessed by a secret force which he will learn how to control, using it to face the hostility of his fellow prisoners and to release them from the maleficent attraction of Dante.
Dante 01 releases in Italy on July 25th.
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Reader Comments
can-D 07/15/2008 @ 1:47am
Saw this months ago and was really looking out for this one but I ended very disappointed. It’s very bad.
The look is great but the story, it’s like a mixture of other films and yes the once he mentioned in the interview.