One Point 0

Rank

Middle 40-60% of all time (see others with this rank)

Festival Year

2004 (click here to see all competition films from this year)

Category

Dramatic Competition

Cast

Jeremy Sisto, Deboralh Unger, Udo Kier, Lance Henriksen

Non-Cast Credits

Jeff Renfroe, Marteinn Thorsson, Chris Sievernich, Matt Milich, Zachary Matz, Andreas Schmid, Andreas Grosch, Chris Soos, Troy Takaki, David Sadler, Eggert Ketilsson, Terry Michael Huud

Description

A Kafka-esque nightmare set in the not-too-distant future, One Point O is that rare film that manages to merge a highly stylized visual sense with an intellectually stimulating narrative.

Computer programmer Simon J. (Jeremy Sisto) wakes one morning to find a plain brown package in his apartment. He unwraps it, but nothing is inside. Despite attempts to secure his apartment, the mysterious packages keep appearing. While security cameras watch his every move, Simon becomes increasingly paranoid and suspicious of all the tenants in his building. When one of the them turns up dead, Simon is pushed even closer to the edge: He is plagued by hallucinationsand craves milk. Frantically, he searches for answers to the mysterious forces tailing over his life.

By blending the ordinary and the bizarre, social reality, and private truth, One Point 0 creates a surreal miseen-scene that transports the audience into the mental landscape of its sympathetic but disturbed protagonist. Amplifying the feverish world with an intensely dripping palette of reds and greens, codirectors Jeff Renfroe and Marteinn Thorsson draw incredibly nuanced performances from a splendidly eclectic cast. One Point 0 is a deliciously scathing indictment of corporate power that creates an eerily familiar world where moral choice and free will are replaced by forced consumption.

Reviewer

Trevor Groth (see other films reviewed by the same reviewer)

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