Reality+

Reality+ (2014)

Dans un futur proche, les implants de réalité augmentée sont devenus monnaie courante. Un réparateur sans histoire reçoit accidentellement une mise à jour expérimentale qui modifie radicalement sa perception du monde et de lui-même. Mais lorsque sa vision altérée devient la norme, une question reste en suspens : que reste-t-il du réel ?

Date de sortie
2014-12-21
TMDB
6.9 / 10 (101)
Durée
22 min
Genres
Science-Fiction
Réalisateur
Coralie Fargeat

Distribution

Anecdotes

Reality+ is a 2014 French science fiction short film written and directed by Coralie Fargeat. It explores a version of Paris in the near future in which a brain implant called Reality+ allows users to see themselves with their ideal physique.

Production and release

The film was written and directed by Coralie Fargeat, produced by Jérôme Lateur, and shot in France. Fargeat was one of the recipients of the 2013 Audi Talents Awards, a cultural sponsorship program that funded the film. Her concept for the film stemmed from media stories she had seen about people willing to suffer and risk their lives for the unattainable promise of happiness, such as Russian girls undergoing hundreds of operations to resemble a…

When casting the "plus" version of each character, Fargeat sought actors with an "unnervingly similar and unnaturally perfect" appearance, aiming to make them feel distinctly detached from reality. For the true-to-life characters, she sought the opposite and thus looked for actors with imperfections to create empathy and charm. Italian-American actress Vanessa Hessler was working in New York City when she met Fargeat over Skype.

Fargeat felt it was crucial to establish the film's worldbuilding to ensure its credibility, believing that the entire film would fall apart if the worldbuilding failed. Working with a limited budget, she could not showcase elements like futuristic cars, but conveyed the setting in other ways.

The film features over 90 visual effects shots. The nightclub scene featured 50 extras, with multiple takes combined to create the illusion of between 300 and 400 people in the club. For the scenes where Reality+ is activated in front of the mirror, actors were filmed in front of a green screen, with the background recreated in 3D based on a photographed real bathroom.

Fargeat expressed interest in adapting Reality+ into an episode of the British dystopian science fiction series Black Mirror (2011–present). The film was later licensed to Wired, and would go on to inspire Fargeat's critically acclaimed film The Substance (2024).

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