Realive

2016 film

Marina Fuentes Arredonda
Ibon Cormenzana
Ignasi Estapé
Jofre Farré
Genevieve Lemal
Sandra Tapia
Jérôme Vidal

Starring

Tom Hughes
Charlotte Le Bon
Oona Chaplin

CinematographyPau Esteve BirbaEdited byGuillermo de la CalMusic byLucas Vidal

Production
companies

Arcadia Motion Pictures
Achaman Films AIE
Canal+ España
Noodles Production
Scope Pictures
Televisión Española

Distributed byFilmax (Spain)
Syfy Films (North America)

Release date

23 July 2016 (2016-07-23) (Fantasia International Film Festival)

Running time

112 minutesCountries

Belgium
Spain
France

LanguageEnglish

Realive (Spanish: Proyecto Lázaro) is a 2016 Belgian-Spanish-French English-language science fiction drama film written and directed by Mateo Gil.

Plot

A man with a terminal illness has his body frozen in cryostasis and becomes the first man to be resuscitated from cryonics seventy years later in the year 2084. His on-and-off-again girlfriend is by his side as he commits suicide in order to be cryopreserved. Being an accomplished artist with a design firm under his wing, he cannot stand the randomness of his throat cancer and decides to "go" under his own volition and control. After his "resurrection" under project "Lazarus", by a company with its own agenda, he starts to question mortality and matters of soul, as well as life as a transition of matter and energy. After realizing that he only valued his own life under the threat of his imminent death, unable to cope with his new life, he decides to commit suicide. Alas, the film ends with the realization that is something he's not allowed to do.

Cast

Tom Hughes as Marc Jarvis
Charlotte Le Bon as Elizabeth
Oona Chaplin as Naomi
Barry Ward as Dr. West
Julio Perillán as Dr. Serra
Rafael Cebrián as Jeffrey
Bruno Sevilla as Charles
Daniel Horvath as Surgeon
Alex Hafner as The Elderly Hornball
Godeliv Van den Brandt as Sigourney
Melina Matthews as Technician
Nikol Kollars as Dr. Gethers
Angelo Olivier as Marc's Father
Yone Sosa as Lizard boy
Maarten Swaan as Alex
Alexandra Szucs as Sandy
Johanna Wallmeier as Rebecca
Josh Gorroño Chapman as Boy 1

Production

Filming took place in Tenerife, Canary Islands (Spain).

Reception

Film critic Dennis Harvey of Variety.com wrote that "Gil demonstrates a graceful assurance orchestrating Realive's design and technical elements" but felt that the film was ultimately "emotionally antiseptic".^[1]