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Mr. Nobody

Canada, Germany, France, Belgium

2009

138 Min
Color
2.35:1
English
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DIR Jaco van Dormael

EXEC Jean-Yves Asselin

PROD Philippe Godeau

SCR Jaco van Dormael

DP Christophe Beaucarne

CAST Jared Leto, Diane Kruger, Rhys Ifans, Sarah Polley, Juno Temple, Linh Dan Pham, Toby Regbo, Clare Stone, Thomas Byrne, Audrey Giacomini, Laura Brumagne, Daniel Mays, Michael Riley, Harold Manning, Emily Tilson

ED Matyas Veress, Susan Shipton

PROD DES Sylvie Olivé

MUSIC Pierre van Dormael

SOUND Nicolas Provost

Venice (Fiction and Outstanding Technical Contribution): Biografilm Award and Golden Osella, Toronto (Special Presentation), Karlovy Vary (Focus on Belgian Cinema), Stockholm (Best Cinematography), Transilvania (3x3 - Jaco Van Dormael)

Synopsis

Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence at his wife’s side, Elise, and their 3 children until the day when reality skids and he wakes up as an old man in the year 2092. At 120, Mr. Nobody is both the oldest man in the world and the last mortal of a new mankind where nobody dies anymore. But that doesn’t seem to interest or bother him very much. The only questions that preoccupy him in the present is whether he lived the right life for himself, loved the woman whom he was supposed to love, and had the children whom he was meant to have… now his purpose is to find the right answer. —IMDb

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Jaco van Dormael

Jaco Van Dormael (born 1957, Ixelles, Belgium) is a Belgian film director, screenwriter and playwright. His complex and critically acclaimed films are especially noted for their respectful and sympathetic portrayal of people with mental and physical disabilities.

In the 1980s, he became interested in filmmaking and produced a number of short films that aroused considerable critical interest.

Van Dormael made his feature-length debut in 1991 with Toto le Héros (Toto the hero), a tale about a man who believes his life was “stolen” from him when he was switched at birth, told in a complex mosaic of flashbacks and dream sequences, sometimes with almost a stream of consciousness effect. Toto le Héros gained wide critical acclaim, winning both the César Award for best foreign film and the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, making Van Dormael something of an overnight celebrity.

His brother Pierre Van Dormael was a jazz guitarist and composer, and had scored his… read more

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Joseph Sylvers

24May12

I loved Toto The Hero, so I was confused as to why it was being remade here as Mr.Nobody, with a slight sci-fi twist, as much as Toto had a detective/mystery twist. The editing is great, the musical cues are a bit distracting. I understood the point of the different versions of the same song, but the problem was with the execution not the idea. The editing was great, but the plot could have used more focus.

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Anıl Can

19May12

http://youtu.be/3lgyaXz7NYI

Adam Piercy

14May12

Spends far too much time trying to look cool and seem 'deep', but ends up a jumbled (yet bizarrely enthralling) mess

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FailedImitator

6May12

Still has its faults, like, the music cues stil irk me, but it's so much better watching it again two years later. Juno Temple was magnificent, and Sarah Polley is raw emotion personified.

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The Auteurs Daily: Venice and Toronto. Mr. Nobody

By David Hudson on September 14, 2009

"Nemo Nobody is dying," writes Todd Brown at Twitch. "Nemo Nobody is in love. Nemo Nobody is old and infirm. Nemo Nobody is a wide-eyed child

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Review (Sort of...): MR. NOBODY

By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
[Oh those clowns at E1! Why in gods name would you release (In Canada, anyway) a cerebral science fiction film for adults on the same day as Christopher Nolan’s juggernaut? Without any marketing! Do you
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TIFF 09: MR NOBODY Review

By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
Nemo Nobody is dying.  Nemo Nobody is in love.  Nemo Nobody is old and infirm.  Nemo Nobody is a wide-eyed child.  Nemo Nobody is rich and successful.  Nemo Nobody is a wild-haired bum sleeping on a park
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TIFF 09: MR NOBODY Review

By Twitchfilm.net on July 17, 2010
Nemo Nobody is dying.  Nemo Nobody is in love.  Nemo Nobody is old and infirm.  Nemo Nobody is a wide-eyed child.  Nemo Nobody is rich and successful.  Nemo Nobody is a wild-haired bum sleeping on a park
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Life as Fiction: Mr. Nobody (2009)

By Life as Fiction on May 6, 2011

In the words of Lauryn Hill: “Everything is everything.” That may be Van Dormael’s message in Mr. Nobody, an ultracomprehensive look at living, decision-making and learning not to worry about…  read review

Le storytelling en abîme ! Excellent !

By hubertg​uillaud on September 12, 2010

Voilà un film dans lequel on n’attendait pas Jaco Van Dormael qui dessine ici un univers visuel et complexe pour créer un objet insaisissable, bourré d’idées, d’images, de fulgurances… Beaucoup reprocheront…  read review

mix and match

By prestid​igitato​r on August 16, 2010

if you’re an ordinary person and have a few obsessions, you will surely recognize some of them in the movie. if you’re a bit out of the ordinary or have a bit more obsession, you will surely recognize…  read review

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By Mugino on September 19, 2009

What does a prescient person do when he reaches a crossroad? What happens when he makes a choice contrary to the future he has seen? Will his future self look back and remember multiple parallel…  read review

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