news culture We will have to wait almost 100 years to see this film already shot!
The Seventh Art has tried many things, but this entirely new project is enough to spark curiosity. And with good reason: we are talking about a short film that will not be released for less than a century.
The longer the better
Ah, France. Its cheese, its bread, its haute couture, its Eiffel Tower… and its spirits! As for the drinks, we can say that France has a layer of it as the wine culture is well known all over the world, not to mention certain brands of spirits. And if we’re telling you all this, it’s because French cognac brand Louis XIII is running a pretty crazy film project.
One of its flagship products is therefore a cognac aged no less than… a hundred years. Only that. And the company ordered them to take part a short film about this extraordinary alcohol: baptized “100 years”, we will not be able to see it for a century.
Century ass drinking
contacted in 2015, so it’s director Robert Rodriguez (Sin City, Planet Terror, Alita Battle Angel, One Night In Hell) who should control this “100 years” short film. As a figurehead we’re going to find one John Malkovitch, a true cinema legend, and Shuya Chang. Together they came up with a story around this bottle with an aura that articulates around three versions of the future that we can discover in the year 2115.
More precisely on November 18, 2115. To do this, and because we’re not really sure of the methods of cinema consumption a century from now, The film can only be viewed with an overhead projector. This is captured only on film, which is carefully kept in a safe with a bottle of the famous cognac.
Even more symbolically, the io9 site claims so The production has established a long-lasting system of metal tickets that provide access to watch the film and are passed down from generation to generation.
While waiting to be able to cryogenize, here is, a priori, all you can see of the various visions of the future Rodriguez envisionedfound in “100 Years” in 2115. A film that lives up to its name, of which here are two teasers.
