Sonoya Mizuno as Kyoko and Alicia Vikander as Ava in a scene from Alex Garland film Ex Machina. Photo / Supplied
Sonoya Mizuno as Kyoko and Alicia Vikander as Ava in a scene from Alex Garland film Ex Machina. Photo / Supplied
Whanganui Film Society's Monday night screening is Ex Machina, by English novelist and screenwriter Alex Garland (The Beach).
Garland made his directorial debut with this 2015 film which Robbie Collin, of The Telegraph, described as a "smart, sleekly designed and flawlessly performed psy-fi drama."
"Ava [Alicia Vikander] doesn't mean toscare you. She only wants to get inside your head. The heroine of Alex Garland's Ex Machina has sharp blue eyes, an even, inquisitive voice and skin so clear it seems to soften the air around it. She's also a robot, pieced together by a reclusive genius in a house shrouded by mountains, and her thought processes are sparked by the terms millions of humans are keying into Blue Book, the world's most popular internet search engine…
"This is bewitchingly smart science fiction of a type that's all too rare. Its intelligence is anything but artificial."
Whanganui Film Society memberships are available online or at the theatre before screenings.
