anyone see this movie, Immortal, by enki bilal
blends real people and animated people with really spectacular sets, and one truly weird storyline.
i'm not saying run out and buy it unless you're hardcore about film animation.  but if anyone has seen it what do you think?

Saw the movie. Weird stuff indeed. I would give it 3 stars or less. The story doesn't make sense other than apocalyptic stuff and symbolism.

Actually caught some of this on a cable channel recently and it is really, really weird.  Love stuff like this.  I definitely need to find out when it will be rebroadcast to watch the entire movie.

i finished watching last night and it was really pretty good.  lot of poetry and stuff.  says on the box that the comic that it was made from was part of the inspiration for blade runner and stargate.  you can definitely tell.
story was a little shallow though...so many threads it could've been longer to flesh them out.  but that's my only complaint.  truly unusual film
the film cost 13 bucks brand new. 

I haven't seen the film, but judging by 'Nikopol Trilogy', the only work of his I know, weirdness is pretty much guaranteed - very stylish weirdness, but weirdness nonetheless.

I wouldn't have thought he'd been around long enough to have influenced 'Blade Runner', though.

Immortel is based on the "Nikopol Trilogy" - mostly book 2: The Woman Trap. They make a bit more sense than the film, probably because you can take your time with them. But there's a lot of Eastern European political allegory going on, so it's foriegn territory for your average genre movie/FX fan.

I think Bilal was working on stuff for Heavy Metal/Metal Hurlant back when Ridley Scott was checking it out for Bladerunner, but Moebius would've been the greater influence on Bladerunner.

Bilal has a few other films out but it's hard to find subtitled versions - nothing with Immortel's level of FX though. Some interesting and surprising techniques - seemingly random use of real actors and CG ones. Definitely a unique piece.

Cheers

weird..I was just telling someone how obscure this film was & that no one I knew had heard of it..

btw,Chris Thunig who was an artist at Duran at the time the film was made has some of the imortel assets on display at his site..in the texture section:
http://www.thunig.com/content_01/tp_main_01.html

Wow, nice - I'll just go shoot myself...heheh.

Immortel has been on TV here (SBS - Australia's sort of foreign culture broadcaster) and the DVD is pretty easy to find. Aussies are such SF junkies that anything that pretty will get a fairly respectable release. Surprised it's less know in NZ though.

Bilal has another series of books after the Nikopol Trilogy - just as strange but just as brilliantly illustrated. That baroque SF design of his...

"Humanoids" is the name of the publisher I think - any specialty comics store should be able to get them in the translated editions.

Cheers