DESIGN & CINEMA: Her (+ film analysis)
Her by Spike Jonze
USA, 2013, 2h06, English with French subtitles
Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Scarlett Johansson, Amy Adams
In the near future, in Los Angeles, Theodore Twombly, a taciturn thirty-something going through a divorce, works as a ghostwriter for a company that provides its clients with bespoke letters. One day, he encounters Samantha, an evolving artificial intelligence, who soothes his melancholy with her voice and then draws him into a unique love affair. In Her, pastel hues and clean, fluid architecture, rendered through expansive framing, compose an understated future where intimacy takes center stage. The city becomes an extension of Theodore's inner world, and the sound design sculpts the emotional space of the narrative, giving this invisible relationship a new tangible reality. With a gentle unease, Her explores how technology reshapes desires, loneliness, and even the very forms of presence. Artificial intelligence is neither a threat nor a tool, but a dramatic force whose internal expansion structures the narrative.
The screening was followed by an analysis of the film by Nicolas Thévenin, publishing director of the magazine Répliques, member of the Cinématographe programming committee and teacher at l'école de design Nantes Atlantique.
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