Carre blanc

A Solair Films production in colaboration with Tarantula. (Worldwide sales: Coach 14, Paris.) Produced by Benjamin Mamou, Jean-Baptiste Leonetti. Executive producer, Camille Havard Bourdon. Co-producers, Ernest Rouschop, Xavier Ruiz, Alexander Rodnyansky. Directed, put together by Jean-Baptiste Leonetti.With: Sami Bouajila, Julie Gayet, Jean-Pierre Andreani, Carlos Leal, Dominique Paturel, Fejria Deliba, Valerie Bodson, Viviana Aliberti, Majid Hives, Adele Exarchopoulos, Nathalie Becue Prader. (French dialogue)A prominent film website describes the premise of "Carre blanc" thus: "Afterwards, society's weak are destroyed and useful for meat." That is each one of these helluva false assumption, or it's symptomatic of author-director Jean-Baptiste Leonetti's excessively cryptic debut feature, because this kind of major conceptual point is barely even suggested onscreen. Bleak, minimalist dystopian sci-fi a la "1984" and "THX-1138," pic epitomizes the carefully thought-out aesthetic package with almost zero fascination with narrative and audience engagement. Adventurous genre fans will uncover it via disc or download a few will probably be rapt, many bored. As children, Philippe (Sami Bouajila) and Marie (Julie Gayet) met when she saved him from undertaking suicide as his mother had. 20 years later, he's end up being the perfect controlling tool from the all-pervasive corporation, posting subordinates to psychologically and/or physically harmful tests they can't possibly pass, while she laments their childlessness and also the behavior for the consuming machine. An initially striking, obtuse objet d'art, "Carre Blanc" soon evolves turgid while you realizes the specific, sterile visual and ominous audio tactics are that's prone to "happen."Camera (color, HD), David Nissen editors, Alex Rodriguez, Eric Jacquemin music, Evgueni Galperine production designers, Marie Pierre Durand, Noelle Van Parijs. Examined at Toronto Film Festival (Vanguard), Sept. 14, 2011. Running time: 80 MIN. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com