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Dante 01 (2008)

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Average Rating: 4.4/10
Reviews Counted: 6
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Release Date: Jan 2, 2008 Wide

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Delicatessen and City of Lost Children co-director Marc Caro makes his solo directorial debut with this nightmarish tale of a deep space prison and the newly arrived inmate suffering from a mysterious alien infection. Dante 01 is a maximum-security penitentiary located at the edge of the galaxy. Upon arriving at Dante 01 for psychiatric evaluation, the sole survivor of a horrifying alien encounter finds himself in the middle of a battle to harness his strange new powers. But the volatile force

Art House & International, Mystery & Suspense, Science Fiction & Fantasy

Directed By: Marc Caro

Written By: Marc Caro, Pierre Bordage

In Theaters: Jan 2, 2008 Wide

On DVD: Apr 21, 2009

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...a terminally dull sci-fi effort...

May 29, 2010 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

resembles a poorly translated Heavy Metal comic strip.

April 22, 2009 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com

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Keith Breese

Filmcritic.com

Dante 01 isn't science fiction, it's just allegory with technology. The symbols are all on the surface...

April 18, 2009 Full Review Source: Seanax.com

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Sean Axmaker

Seanax.com

Reeks of something written by a self-important first-year philosophy student . . .

October 21, 2008 Full Review Source: Sci-Fi Movie Page

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James O'Ehley

Sci-Fi Movie Page Source: Sci-Fi Movie Page

...best described as The Green Mile meets Solaris on the set of Alien Resurrection.

October 13, 2008 Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly

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Luke Y. Thompson

L.A. Weekly

If you like your SF challenging, bleak and unapologetically theosophical, Dante 01 offers a vision of hell that you may well find heavenly.

September 10, 2008 Full Review Source: Film4

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Anton Bitel

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This film is from the 2008 Screamfest Festival. Not as good as some of the other movies show at this festival, matter of fact it was way out there. Its put out by Dimension Extreme, so I knew I was in for something wild. About a prison in space where a new inmate is sent with what appears to be healing powers and can

December 8, 2011

Bruce Bruce

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A very strange mixture of sci-fi and thriller with some religious allegory thrown in. Some of it doesn't make any sense (to me) but so much of it does and I enjoyed the trademark look that Caro brings over from previous efforts that he made with co-director Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Alot apparently are turned off by it's

July 8, 2010