Swan Song, a science fiction fable
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With this late-career gem, Haynes creates a poignant allegory about ageing and acceptance through a sci-fi lens.
Mahershala Ali poignantly plays a man who, faced with mortality, chooses to ‘reproduce’ himself through cloning to avoid the loss of his loved ones.
Haynes populates his futuristic world with vivid, tactile details that enrich his philosophical reflections on the essence of being.
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He challenges the meaning of identity and memory in a flexible biological landscape.
Glenn Close and Naomie Harris are magnetic polar opposites as consolers who see this man differently: one resents change, the other embraces it. Their nuanced work forms the dramatic core.
But it is Ali's face - in close-ups that embrace the marks of time as maps of a life - that imprints the tender humanity of this film. A sublime eulogy to an artist at the height of his empathy.
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Through its combination of profound questions and personal intimacy, Swan Song rises as one of the masterpieces of late cinema, a science fiction fable that feels like a landscape of the soul. A film to dwell on.
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