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Code
46
(Directed by Michael Winterbottom, starring
Samantha Morton and Tim Robbins)
Shanghai
is a futuristic hybrid of a metropolis. It is surrounded by deserts
inhabited by unfortunates and outsiders, desperate to make their
way into the thriving city.
While
investigating the smuggling of fraudulent 'papelles' (insurance,
passport and visa rolled into one) in a Shanghai insurance agency,
Tim Robbins' investigator finds that he is strangely attracted to
the prime suspect (Samantha Morton).
He
lies and indicts her co-worker and they have a brief fling. But
what neither of them realize is that they have transgressed what
is known as a 'Code 46', which sends their lives into turmoil.
familiar
and foreign
Somewhere
between sci fi, film noir, and a love letter to Samantha Morton
(excellent again), Code 46 is a post-modern, melancholy tale
of love and survival.
After
helming the BAFTA-winning refugee drama In This World, Winterbottom
encapsulates here an image of the near future both familiar and
foreign, tempting, modern, spectacular - and alienating.
Intelligent
and original stuff from probably Britain's most consistently interesting
contemporary filmmaker.
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