Hirokazu Kore-eda says human imagination still matters in the age of AI
The director's new film is a meditation on grief, humanoids and creativity at a time when AI is reshaping the film industry
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- The director's new film is a meditation on grief, humanoids and creativity at a time when AI is reshaping the film industry
- Hirokazu Kore-eda says human imagination still matters in the age of AI
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- Competing for the Palme d’Or at the 79th Cannes Film Festival — the director’s eighth time in the main competition — “Sheep in the Box” opens in Japan on May 29
- The film also marks Kore-eda’s return to his own original Japanese-language screenplay for the first time since “Shoplifters” won the Palme d’Or in 2018
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The director's new film is a meditation on grief, humanoids and creativity at a time when AI is reshaping the film industry
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In the opening scene of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s new film “Sheep in the Box,” a drone delivers a brochure to a grieving couple advertising a humanoid modeled after their dead son. The service is offered by a company that promises bereaved families the chance to reconnect with l…
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- The director's new film is a meditation on grief, humanoids and creativity at a time when AI is reshaping the film industry
- Hirokazu Kore-eda says human imagination still matters in the age of AI
- In the opening scene of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s new film “Sheep in the Box,” a drone delivers a brochure to a grieving couple advertising a humanoid modeled after their dead son
- The service is offered by a company that promises bereaved families the chance to reconnect with lost loved ones
- What happens next forms the emotional core of Kore-eda’s most fable-like and philosophically searching film to date
Why this matters
- Competing for the Palme d’Or at the 79th Cannes Film Festival — the director’s eighth time in the main competition — “Sheep in the Box” opens in Japan on May 29
- The film also marks Kore-eda’s return to his own original Japanese-language screenplay for the first time since “Shoplifters” won the Palme d’Or in 2018
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