A SCANNER DARKLY

Un Certain Regard

Directed by :: Richard LINKLATER

Country:: USA

Year:: 2005

Duration:: 100.00 minutes

Synopsis

LOCATION: Suburban Orange County, California.

TIME: The near future.

America’s endless and futile war on drugs has become one and the same with its war on terror. Reluctant undercover cop Bob Arctor (Keanu Reeves) follows orders to start spying on his friends, Jim Barris (Robert Downey Jr.), Ernie Luckman (Woody Harrelson), Donna Hawthorne (Winona Ryder) and Charles Freck (Rory Cochrane). When he is directed to step up the surveillance on himself, he is launched on a paranoid journey into the absurd, where identities and loyalties are impossible to decode.

Based on legendary science-fiction author Philip K. Dick’s own experiences, “A Scanner Darkly” tells the darkly comedic, but deeply tragic tale of drug use in the modern world. The film plays like a graphic novel come to life with live-action photography overlaid with an advanced animation process—a method known as interpolated rotoscoping, first employed in writer/director Richard Linklater’s 2001 film "Waking Life" — to create a haunting version of America, seven years from now.

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French press kit A Scanner Darkly

Richard LINKLATER

Credits

Richard LINKLATER - Director
Richard LINKLATER - Screenplay
Shane F. KELLY - Cinematography
Bruce CURTIS - Set Designer
Graham REYNOLDS - Music
Sandra ADAIR, A.C.E. - Film Editor
Jason ARCHER - Animation
Paul BECK - Animation
Bob SABISTON - Animation

Actors

Rory COCHRANE - Charles FRECK
Robert DOWNEY JR - James BARRIS
Woody HARRELSON - Ernie LUCKMAN
Keanu REEVES - Bob ARCTOR
Winona RYDER - Donna HAWTHORNE

Contacts and useful links

Production

WARNER INDEPENDANT PICTURES - 4000 Warner Boulevard 91522 Burbank, California USA - T : 1 818 954 6430 - laura.kim@warnerbros.com - http://wip.warnerbros.com THOUSAND WORDS (ETATS-UNIS) SECTION EIGHT (ETATS-UNIS) DETOUR FILMPRODUCTION (ETATS-UNIS) 3 ARTS ENTERTAINMENT (ETATS-UNIS)

Distribution

WARNER BROS. FRANCE - T : 01 72 25 20 00 - www.warnerbros.fr

French press

WARNER BROS. FRANCE - Carole Chomand assistée de Sabri Ammar - T : 01 72 25 10 83 - carole.chomand@warnerbros.com - http://wip.warnerbros.com/ascannerdarkly

International press