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Evaluation is a black comedy in a mode that you could call dystopian absurdism. Located in a post-apocalyptic world ravaged and produced by Fleur Fletuné, ordinary clip, it features Elizabeth Olsen and Himesh Patel as a couple who wants to have a child. To qualify as parents in this future company, they must submit to the assessment by an official who will live with them for a week.
The evaluator, Virginie, played by Alicia Vikander, arrives duly: she is a courteous and formal professional woman in a net uniform, partly bureaucrat, partly nanny to the old -fashioned agency. She immediately makes the couple sublimely uncomfortable, standing mainly outside their room as they try to make love.
The next day, Virginia adopted the role of a petulant and volatile infant, forcing her hosts to play harassed parents – all the more anxious because they do not know if they will get better points to be strict or indulgent. Other challenges are thick and fast, in particular by organizing a dinner for a selection of guests guaranteed to increase the embarrassment factor – among them, an imperatively sarcastic Minnie driver, who overcomes the obligation to have to play a whole band of history.
The feeling that the couple has been written in a punitive game, with rules that can be entirely arbitrary, is reinforced by the production design of Jan Houllevigue, their house resembling the prisons of creators of many television reality TV shows.
Written by Mrs. & M. Thomas (alias Nell Garfath-Cox and Dave Thomas), the film begins from a strongly targeted premise, before becoming more and more capricious; It ends up feeling like a Black mirror episode stretched further beyond his punchline. Evaluation Works better when it comes to asymmetrical psychological interaction – and in this register, Olsen and Patel are great together, their characters working like crazy so as not to be exceeded by an entertaining vikander Mercurial.
★★★ ☆☆
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