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Simone Movie Rating: 
Gentle Satire | |
| When a temperamental actress (Winona Ryder) walks off the set of her latest movie, the film's director, Viktor Taransky (Al Pacino), replaces her with Simone, the first fully digital actress, named after her computer software, Simulation-One. When Simone becomes an overnight sensation, Taransky finds that his creation has taken on a life of its own. | |
| Writer-director Andrew Niccol gently satirizes the wheeling and dealing of Hollywood, the enormous egos of actors, and the public's deification of celebrities. Pacino's amusing performance incorporates all the acting tricks that his character derides in movie stars, and Catherine Keener is a comic bundle of neuroses as Taransky's jealous ex-wife. Then there is Simone, a computer-generated character so realistic that real-life actresses better watch their backs. Creator Niccol successfully blurs cinema's fine line between reality and illusion. |
Al Pacino and Simone. Courtesy of New Line Cinema. |
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