How do you solve a crime when the last thing you want to know is the truth?
In a dystopian future, insurance fraud investigator William Gold arrives in Shanghai to investigate a forgery ring for "papelles", futuristic passports that record people's identities and genetics. Gold falls for Maria Gonzalez, the woman in charge of the forgeries. After a passionate affair, Gold returns home, having named a coworker as the culprit. But when one of Gonzalez's customers is found dead, Gold is sent back to Shanghai to complete the investigation.
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Aug 20256/10
I struggle with some of these futuristic dystopian dramas simply because I can never imagine how humanity could ever find itself in the situation where life could really be like this. This one adds an additional, if entirely accidental, Oedipean element to the plot. “Geld” (Tim Robbins) is an investigator who tracks down folks who peddle in fake travel documents. Believe it or not, this is big business in a world where travel is tightly regulated by the governmental “Sphinx”. His latest trip takes him to Shanghai where he encounters “Maria” (Samantha Morton) whom he quickly deduces is behind the forgeries, but he’s too smitten to do anything about it as he embarks on twenty-four hours of activities he might not like to recount to his wife at home. Anyway, back home he goes only for his boss to enquire as to why he seemed to have failed in his mission and to promptly send him back. Was this his plan all along - to be sent back? Well when he tries to find “Maria” again, he discovers that she has undergone memory erasing treatment following her alleged breaching of “Code 46”. He also discovers that she is not quite the random person he had initially supposed, and that the genetics of
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Cast
- Tim RobbinsWilliam Geld
- Samantha MortonMaria Gonzales
- Nabil ElouahabiVendor
- Om PuriBahkland
- Emil MarwaMohan
- Nina FogWole
- Bruno LastraBikku
- Togo IgawaDriver
- Natalie MendozaSphinx Receptionist
- Jeanne BalibarSylvie
Crew
- Michael WinterbottomDirector
- Frank Cottrell BoyceScreenplay
- Alwin H. KüchlerDirector of Photography
- Marcel ZyskindDirector of Photography
- Stephen HiltonOriginal Music Composer
- David HolmesOriginal Music Composer
- Peter ChristelisEditor
- Andrew EatonProducer
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