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Movie Info

Anxious to use artificially intelligent robots to improve the world, Rosetta Stone (Tilda Swinton), a bio-geneticist, devises a recipe through which she can download her own DNA into a "live" brew she is growing in her computer. She succeeds in breeding three Self Replicating Automatons - S.R.A.s - that look human, but were bred as intelligent machines. All of the characters struggle to find meaning in a world where love is the only thing that makes things real.

Rating:

R (Some Sexual Content)
Genre:

sci fi
Original Language:

English
Director:

Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Producer:

Youssef Vahabzadeh, John Bradford King, Oscar Gubernati
Writer:

Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Release Date (Streaming):

Apr 17, 2020
Box Office (Gross USA):

$28.8K
Runtime:

1h 24m
Sound Mix:

Surround
Aspect Ratio:

Flat (1.85:1)

Cast & Crew

Tilda Swinton
Rosetta, Ruby, Marine, Olive

Jeremy Davies
Sandy

James Urbaniak
Agent Hopper

Karen Black
Dirty Dick

Al Nazemian
Dr. Bea

Josh Kornbluth
Tim

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Critic Reviews for Teknolust

All Critics (33) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (10) | Rotten (23)

Fails as entertainment, being so ineptly directed and written it often has the feel of a high school production by kids with more money and ambition than talent.

February 20, 2004 | Rating: 1.5/4

Jonathan Foreman
New York Post
A minor addition to the tiny genre of feminist science fiction films.

February 19, 2004 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Dave Kehr
New York Times
It's a quiet tour de force for Tilda Swinton.

February 18, 2004 | Full Review…

Laura Sinagra
Village Voice
Stumbles from one catatonic scene to the next, mixing aggressively 'clever' ideas with strident dialogue.

November 14, 2003 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…

Ty Burr
Boston Globe
Sci-fi has rarely been so playful.

August 22, 2003 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Edward Guthmann
San Francisco Chronicle
It's the sort of pretentious twaddle that gives twaddle a bad name.

August 21, 2003 | Rating: 1/4

Bruce Newman
San Jose Mercury News
Quote not available.

December 6, 2005 | Rating: 1.5/5 | Full Review…

Film Threat
A silly mad scientist film dealing mostly with feminist issues.

September 22, 2004 | Rating: B- | Full Review…

Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
viewers have to endure new media artist Lynn Hershman Leeson's uncomfortable attempts at taking her cracking-stiff theories and translating them into dramatic narrative form

February 20, 2004 | Rating: 1.5/5

Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com
Leeson's sensibility is a thoroughly irritating mix of intellectual hauteur and juvenile smuttiness.

February 19, 2004 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide
A muddled mess of cybernetics and new-age philosophy that goes nowhere slow, despite its abbreviated 80-minute running time

February 19, 2004 | Rating: D | Full Review…

Edward Havens
FilmJerk.com
Can a movie be fascinating and boring at the same time?

February 19, 2004 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…

Scott Weinberg
eFilmCritic.com

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Audience Reviews for Teknolust

Jan 11, 2010

What an odd little movie. It's pretty much totally invalid except as a performance showcase for Tilda Swinton, giving her all sorts of bizarre alien landscapes and situations to maneuver through. Its total lack of focus makes it intellectually unengaging, it looks and sounds cheap, and you don't really laugh at its absurdity like you would at most other successful comedies; you sort of revel in it. You get to see Swinton choreograph a three-person dance routine comprised entirely of herself, though, and you get to watch her say "succulent proteins" over and over to some guy at a bakery. Perhaps I'm just a fucking moron, or a die-hard Swinton fan, but little pleasures like these were perfectly worth sacrificing my 80 minutes for. Unless you really want to get your Tilda on, or you're in the mood for a super oddball sci-fi feminist curio, you could probably skip this and not miss out on much.

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