Austrian director Jessica Hausner’s “Little Joe” had its premiere in competition at Cannes on Friday, with Variety describing the film as an “artfully unnerving horror movie” that’s an “‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ for the age of antidepressants.” Emily Beecham and Ben Whishaw star in the film about a genetically engineered plant that scatters its seeds and seems to cause uncanny changes on living creatures.
Hausner spoke to Variety about playing with genres, science and science fiction.What genre is the movie?It’s fantasy-sci-fi-horror.
The film plays a little bit with the genre of sci-fi – it’s similar to a fairy tale or Frankenstein.
It’s a simple story and then plays with the genre to tell a story about the world, ask questions or look for explanations or a point of view about society.Frankenstein is a story about a scientist and a monster, but it said something about society.
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