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Reality+
Directed byCoralie Fargeat
Written byCoralie Fargeat
Produced byJérôme Lateur
Starring
  • Vanessa Hessler
  • Vincent Colombe
  • Aurélien Muller
  • Aurélia Poirier
  • Samuel Trépanier
CinematographyPhilip Lozano [1]
Edited byCharlotte Rembauville [1]
Music byWalt Fermaitre [1]
Production
company
Mezzanine [2]
Release date
  • 2014 (2014)
Running time
22 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Reality+ is a 2014 French science fiction short film written and directed by Coralie Fargeat and funded through the Audi Talents Awards. The film explores a near-future Paris in which a brain chip called Reality+ allows users to see themselves with their idealized physique, and is based on themes including society's obsession with appearance. Fargeat used a limited budget to blend futuristic elements with Paris's historic setting. Reality+ received accolades and inspired her second feature film, The Substance.

Cast

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  • Vanessa Hessler as Stella+
  • Vincent Colombe as Vincent Dangeville
  • Aurélien Muller as Vincent+
  • Aurélia Poirier as La Voisine / Stella
  • Samuel Trépanier as Hervé

Synopsis

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In the near future, Vincent, a Parisian unhappy with his appearance, installs Reality+, a brain chip that lets users see themselves and others with their dream physique. Those with Reality+ see themselves as models, while those without must settle for a less ideal reality. However, Reality+ only works in 12-hour intervals, a limitation for Vincent as he navigates an appearance-obsessed world and falls for Stella, another Reality+ user.

Production

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The film was written and directed by Coralie Fargeat,[3] produced by Jérôme Lateur[4] and shot in France.[5] In 2013, Fargeat was one of the recipients of the Audi Talents Awards,[6][7] a cultural sponsorship program that funded the film.[8][9] Her concept for the film stemmed from media stories she had seen about people willing to suffer and risk their lives for the unattainable promise of happiness—like Russian girls undergoing hundreds of operations to resemble a Barbie doll, or Chinese girls enduring painful, dangerous leg-lengthening surgery.[10] She was a fan of the science fiction genre[11][10] and drew inspiration from the films Existenz, Gattaca, and Total Recall, and the works of Philip K. Dick.[12] She felt the genre was rarely explored in French cinema,[13] which Audi Talents Juror Nicolas Altmayer ascribed to lack of resources.[14][15]

When casting the plus (+) characters, Fargeat sought actors with an unnervingly similar and unnaturally perfect appearance, aiming to make them feel distinctly detached from reality. For the true-to-life characters, it was the opposite: she wanted imperfections to create empathy and charm.[10] Hesseler was working in New York when she met Fargeat over Skype. She liked the script and the film's message that "appearance isn't everything in life."[16]

For Fargeat, it was crucial to establish the film's world-building to ensure its credibility; she believed that if the world-building didn't work, the entire film would fall apart.[10] Working with a limited budget, she couldn't showcase elements like futuristic cars but conveyed the setting in other ways.[10] She depicted a futuristic city growing within the historic version of Paris, adding technological interfaces, fingerprint scans for payments, and other elements that might become commonplace in the next 10–20 years.[17][10]

She also aimed to present Vincent's apartment as a claustrophobic space, drawing inspiration from the work of Erwin Olaf and Gregory Crewdson.[18] She also used dark colors and sound design to enhance this idea.[10]

The film featured over 90 visual effects shots.[12] The nightclub scene featured 50 extras, with multiple takes combined to create the illusion of 300-400 people in the club.[19] For the scenes where Reality+ is activated in front of the mirror, actors were filmed in front of a green screen, with the background recreated in 3D based on a photographed real bathroom. Camera movements were tracked with the actors’ reflections to ensure a perfect match.[20]

Cinematographer Philippe Lozano also used a head-mounted camera to capture the moment when the chip begins to malfunction.[21]

Post-release

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Fargeat expressed interest in adapting the short into an episode of Black Mirror.[22] The film was later licensed to Wired[23] and would provide inspiration for her second feature film[24] The Substance.[25][26]

Accolades

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Award/Selection Festival Location Date Result
Audience Favorite Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films USA June 2015 Won[27][28][29]
Audience Award Sapporo Short Fest Japan October 2015 Won[27][30][29]
International Audience Award Shnit International Festival Bern October 2015 Won[27][31][29]
Best Movie Festival International du Film Court Paul Simon France June 2015 Won[29][32]
Jury Award Festival des Films Européens de Mamers France March 2015 Won[33][29]
Audience Award Festival Cellul'art Germany April 2015 Won[27][34][29]
European Award Festival Corti da Sogni Italy May 2015 Won[35][29]
Jury Award Best Director All Shorts Irving Film Festival (AsiFF) USA May 2016 Won[36][37]
Jury Award Best Cinematographer All Shorts Irving Film Festival (AsiFF) USA May 2016 Won[36]
Tribeca Film Festival (Competition) Tribeca Film Festival USA April 2016 In competition[38][39][29]
Cleveland Film Festival (Competition) Cleveland International Film Festival USA April 2016 In competition[27][29][40]
Newport Beach Film Festival (Competition) Newport Beach Film Festival USA April 2016 In competition[27][29][41]
Mexico Short (Competition) Shorts México Mexico September 2015 In competition[29][42]
Odense Film Festival (Competition) Odense International Film Festival Denmark August 2015 In competition[27][29][43]
Cinema Jove Film Festival (Competition) Cinema Jove Film Festival Spain June 2015 In competition[27][29][44][45]
MEDIAWAVE (Competition) Mediawave International Film Festival Hungary May 2015 In competition[29][46]
RIFF – Rome Independent Film Festival (Competition) Rome Independent Film Festival Italy May 2015 In competition[27][29][47]
Festival International du Film d'Alès – Itinérances (Competition) Alès Film Festival France April 2015 In competition[48][29]

See also

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References

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