À ton image (2004)

À ton image is a French science-fiction film first released in 2004, directed by Aruna Villiers.  The film is based on a novel by Louise L. Lambrichs and stars Nastassja Kinski, Christopher Lambert, Audrey DeWilder, Rufus and Andrzej Seweryn.  Our overall rating for this film is: very poor.


When Thomas meets Mathilde, he knows at once that she is the woman of his life.   His dream is to settle down and start a family like any other couple, but Mathilde reveals that she cannot give birth.  As it happens, Thomas works in a clinic which specialises in obstetrics.  He discusses his situation with his colleague Professor Cardoze, and the latter proposes a solution which will achieve a miracle birth.  Sure enough, Mathilde succeeds in having a child, but in early childhood their daughter begins to show some strange characteristics...

For her first full length film, Aruna Villiers chooses a subject that is highly topical – the risks and morality of using cloning techniques to achieve a human pregnancy.   Unfortunately, instead of treating the subject seriously, she uses it as the pretext for the most hideous spectacle of artistic self-indulgence.  À ton image looks more like an extended 1990s pop video (without music) than a serious piece of cinema.  It is hard to know which is worse – the film’s childish and insincere presentation, its atrocious screenplay or the most appalling performances.  The whole thing is just too grotesque and vacuous to be taken seriously.

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