A Scanner Darkly
Film - Retrospective - Richard Linklater Filmfest 2007

A Scanner Darkly

Directed by Richard Linklater

Info

Director: Richard Linklater
Section: Retrospective - Richard Linklater
Country: USA
Year: 2006
PT: A Scanner Darkly - Der dunkle Schirm
Language: English
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson, Winona Ryder, Rory Cochrane
18+ (no age rating)

Logline

A Scanner Darkly

In the near future in suburban Orange County, California. America’s endless and futile war on drugs has become one and the same with its war on terror. Reluctant undercover cop Bob Arctor follows orders to start spying on his friends. When he is directed to step up the surveillance on himself, he is launched on a paranoid journey into the absurd ... – The film plays like a graphic novel come to life with live-action photography overlaid with an advanced animation process – a method known as interpolated rotoscoping – to create a haunting version of America, seven years from now.

Meet the director

Richard Linklater