Spike Jonze’s intimate, quietly futuristic drama centers on Theodore, a solitary letter-writer who forms a relationship with Samantha, an evolving artificial intelligence. Jonze blends warm, tactile close-ups with a melancholic rhythm to examine loneliness, desire, and the porous boundary between human feeling and algorithmic empathy. Scarlett Johansson’s luminous voice anchors the film’s emotional core. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, Her is a tender, unsettling meditation on love, memory, and what it means to be alive.

Screening featuring live analysis and audience discussion. In French.

Ridley Scott’s 1982 Blade Runner plunges into a rain-drenched, neon metropolis where bounty hunter Rick Deckard tracks synthetic replicants. The film’s measured pacing and lingering frames foreground questions of identity, memory and empathy, probing what separates human from artificial life. Dense, noir-inflected visuals and a melancholic atmosphere give the story an elegiac tone, balancing tense encounters with reflective solitude. Its interrogation of consciousness and longing lingers long after the credits.

Screening featuring live analysis and audience discussion. In French.

Joachim Rønning’s Tron: Ares propels viewers into a dazzling digital frontier where sleek neon frames and tactile textures collapse the border between human and program. The film follows Ares, a program dispatched into the real world, whose yearning for fragile, embodied experience unsettles a narrative of technological immortality. Through intimate close-ups and kinetic world-building, Rønning probes consciousness, desire and what defines humanity, balancing speculative spectacle with a meditative, elegiac tone that lingers long after the screen goes dark.

Screening featuring live analysis and audience discussion. In French

Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 epic examines human evolution, technology and the abyss between mind and machine. Using precise, monumental compositions and a patient, elliptical rhythm, the film follows a voyage from prehistoric dawn to a cosmic finale as enigmatic forces reshape consciousness. The unsettling intelligence of HAL 9000 refracts questions of control, agency and what defines personhood. Visually austere and sonically rich, the film unfolds as a meditative odyssey where spectacle and philosophical inquiry fuse into a haunting, unforgettable atmosphere.

Screening featuring live analysis and audience discussion. In French

Alex Garland’s precise, provocative film examines consciousness and control through a confined, high-stakes experiment. A young programmer is invited to assess an eerily lifelike artificial intelligence, and the film watches how testing becomes manipulation and seduction without ever revealing answers. Garland’s clean, clinical framing and cool, luminous surfaces heighten the moral ambiguity: identity, agency and empathy are interrogated in measured rhythms. Tense, intellectually charged and visually restrained, the film lingers on power dynamics between creator, subject and viewer.

Screening featuring live analysis and audience discussion. In French