Teknolust

USA/UK/Germany 2002
produced by
Oscar Gubernati, Lynn Hershman-Leeson, John Bradford King, Amy Sommer (executive) for Blue Turtle, Epiphany Productions, Hotwire Productions, ZDF
directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson
starring Tilda Swinton, Jeremy Davies, James Urbaniak, John O'Keefe, Karen Black, Al Nazemian, S.U.Violet, Josh Kornbluth, Thomas Jay Ryan, Howard Swain, Diana Demar, John Pirruccello, Abigail Van Alyn, Dick Bright, John Bradford King, Paul Barnett, Benton Greene, Diane Luby Lane, Paula West, Andrea Zomber
written by Lynn Hershman-Leeson, music by Klaus Badelt, Mark Tschanz, special effects by Megan I.Carlson

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Ruby (Tilda Swinton) is roaming the town, having meaningless sex with any number of men, but making them impotent in the process, burning a bar code onto their foreheads, and crashing their computers. When a few too many men infected by her come for advice to a certain reseearch facility, FBI agent Hopper (James Urbaniak) starts to investigate what he calls a case of biogender warfare - and soon he finds a lead to scientist Rosetta Stone (Tilda Swinton again) ... who can't be the perpetrator though because she's still a virgin. What nobody knows at first is that Rosetta has produced three clones of herself, Ruby, Marinne and Olive (all played by Tilda Swinton of course), who are supposed to stay in her place to avoid discovery ... but Ruby, the nymphomaniac of the trio, just can't. 

Eventually though, Ruby finds love in Sandy (Jeremy Davies), the first man who took her seriously and fed her with anything but his dick, while Marinne and Olive find a way to reverse the effect Ruby has on men (meaning the impotence, the barcode and the crashing computers), and Rosetta loses her innocence to agent Hopper - finally, I might add -, and everybody's happy ... especially Marinne and Olive, who have found a way to produce more Rosetta-clones.

First of all, you mustn't take this film seriously, its scientific background is not thought-through and never pretends to be, its characters are caricatures mostly, and all of the actors seem to be in on the joke. That all said, Teknolust is not the perfect sex-&-clone comedy it could have been, director Lynn Hershman-Leeson is way too obsessed with the film's primary colours-heavy style to fully explore its satirical possibilities, the film's absurd logic isn't carefully enough thought through on its own to come across as convincing, and the whole thing (but especially the ending) is a bit too cute to really work.

Still, as a rather mind- and meaningless piece of science satire it's still entertaining enough to never become annoying, in big parts thanks to the self-ironic performance by Tilda Swinton (all of them) of course.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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