Edge-istential Cinema

NZ filmmaker Andrew Niccol is again poised to “[draw] filmgoers into audacious mind games” with his latest feature Simone. Like previous projects Gattaca and The Truman Show, Simone explores the complicity of the media and general public in creating icons out of illusions: in this case, the computer generated actress of the film’s title. SMH: “[Simone] is spiced with enough barbed wit aimed squarely at the Hollywood myth-making machinery to make a less confident artist anxious about never eating lunch in a certain town again.” Read the NZEDGE profile on Niccol here.