Wifelike

"They're too human to be perfect. She's too perfect to be human."

2022 1h 45m EN

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★6.5TMDB · 359

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A grieving detective in the near-future hunts down criminals who trade artificial humans on the black market. In the fight to end AI exploitation, an underground resistance attempts to infiltrate him by sabotaging the programming of the artificial human assigned as his companion to behave like his late wife. She begins to question her reality as memories of a past life begin to surface in a world where nothing is as it seems.

“They're too human to be perfect. She's too perfect to be human.”

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Cast

Elena Kampouris
Meredith
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
William
Doron Bell
Agent Black
Agam Darshi
Louise
Sara Sampaio
Wendy
Alix Villaret
Lydie
Fletcher Donovan
Keene
C.J. Perry Barnyashev
Holly

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: James Bird
Writers: James Bird
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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ERA

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Released 4 years ago.

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CRAFT

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by James Bird, shot by Nelson Talbot. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Rich Walters. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Richard Schwadel shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Elena Kampouris and Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Doron Bell carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "They're too human to be perfect. She's too perfect to be human.".

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt15978956 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

James Bird directs. Nelson Talbot behind the camera. Rich Walters scores. Richard Schwadel cuts. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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1Released 4 years ago.
2Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
3Directed by James Bird, shot by Nelson Talbot. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Original score by Rich Walters. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5Editor Richard Schwadel shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Elena Kampouris and Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Doron Bell carry the top of the cast.
7Marketing tagline: "They're too human to be perfect. She's too perfect to be human.".
8IMDB entry: tt15978956 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

The technical file

Cinematography: Nelson Talbot
Original score: Rich Walters
Editing: Richard Schwadel
Production design: Patrick Acuna
Runtime: 105 min · 1h 45m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Wifelike (2022)

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CinemaSerf2023-10-22
★ 5/10
So "William" (the ever-wooden Jonathan Rhys Meyers) has recently lost his wife and is assigned an AI replacement "Meredith" (Elena Kampouris), who is just like the real thing - except he has to sign a collision damage waiver if they want to have sex! Anyway, all is going well in their rather sterile Utopian life until we discover that there really is a ghost in her machine. A group called "Scare" is working to free the automated population from the dominion of mankind and it seems that "Meredith" might just be a conduit for that plan. She has dreams, and plenty of them. As they become more disturbing and a man called "Keene" (Fletcher Donovan) starts to feature more and more prominently, we all begin to realise that no-one is quite what they seem and betrayal is just around the corner. AI appears to be the gift that the writers want to keep on giving, but this one is very much at the weaker end of their imaginations. It isn't helped by lots of slow-motion sex scenes between two actors for whom chemistry was clearly not a school subject, and the plot meanders all over the place searching for something palpable to cling onto. Who's who? I'm afraid I didn't care - and the worrying signals that a sequel may be in the offing don't encourage either. If you ever saw "Humans" in the UK, then this is a poor relation of that...

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