rands-4 Saw this movie at the Toronto Film Festival a couple of years ago..still can't forget how bad it was. Now wish I could somehow get that 2 hours back. Utterly unbelievable and childish. What was amazing is after the screening, the audience cheered and then asked deep philosophical questions about the meaning of the characters actions and sucked up to the Tilda Swinton (in attendance) and the director who was also in attendance...did they see the same film as I did? Honestly, I try to be as open minded as anyone to a every film I see, I like the bizarre and offbeat, this is both, but with no redeeming value whatsoever..avoid at all cost!

hokeybutt TEKNOLUST (3 outta 5 stars) Reading a synopsis of this movie you'd think it was some strange-sounding porno... or a wacky comedy. A lonely, nerdy female scientist replicates herself into a trio of cybernetic copies. In order to live, these "clones" need regular doses of male chromosomes, found only in male sperm. So the eldest copy goes out into the world, collecting samples for the sustenance of her and her "sisters". Yes, this definitely sounds like something that came out of the imagination of some sex-starved sci-fi nerd. Except... that the film was actually written and directed by a woman. So there is plenty of "subtext" and "symbolism" to "legitimize" a plot that sounds like it was dreamed up in "Letters to Penthouse". Tilda Swinton is the main reason to watch this movie... she plays the scientist and the three copies and she does a great job of making each one of them a different character. Also there is one wacky scene where the three "sisters" are doing some weird interpretive dance (all on screen at the same time) that is just sublime! Unfortunately, except for Swinton, the acting is pretty awful. Actually, Jeremy Davies is okay playing a lovelorn copy guy who falls in love with one of the copies but all he really gets to do is make cute puppy eyes at Tilda. For a comedy... the tone of this movie seems awfully sombre at times. A quicker pace and some livelier dialogue might have helped this movie become a classic. As it is, it's an okay movie enlivened by the talent of Tilda Swinton.

rxw Rosetta Stone, a post doctoral academic doing a double major in computer science and biology has three clones of her mousy self. the clones all have different and fabulous hair, an affinity for shiny clothes, and a color theme for each. the clones are essentially addicts or vampires, and can only live on human male ejaculate (intravenously please). for some inadequately explained reason all the donors (hand selected by the lead clone, ruby) get sick, leading to the clones' near discovery, and just as inexplicably, the donors get well, just as ruby falls in love with a human male ejaculate producer. the academic and the clones are all played by tilda swinton.it has an interesting premise and a few developments that drive the narrative forward. but these twists aren't enough to sustain interest. Tilda Swinton is the most talented in the production, but she's hobbled by wretched dialog.looks gorgeous though. great wardrobe, set design, makeup. shame about the words coming out of the actors' mouths.

rosscinema This film has high aspirations and gives the viewer plenty to think about (both good and not so good) but the story's execution by the director is a mixed bag that has rightly given this film it's cult status. Story is about Rosetta Stone (Tilda Swinton) who's a scientist in biotechnology and she's made three computer clones of herself by downloading her DNA. The three clones are Ruby, Marinne, and Olivia (all played by Swinton) and they live in Rosetta's computer but at night Ruby sneaks out into the real world as a hooker and collects sperm samples from men which she takes back to make tea with that refuels them.*****SPOILER ALERT***** The men that have had encounters with Ruby all become impotent and get a rash on their forehead resembling a barcode which prompts Agent Hopper (James Urbaniak) to investigate and it leads to Rosetta whom he quarantines. Meanwhile, a nerdy and virginal copy-shop guy named Sandy (Jeremy Davies) meets Ruby and they talk of how difficult intimacy is and leads to them falling in love.This film is directed by Lynn Hershman-Leeson who is making her second feature film effort after "Conceiving Ada" (also with Swinton) and while she shows great promise in her ideas it's the manner in which her films are told that comes under scrutiny. I'm definitely not one that wants a script to be obvious and dumbed down for general audiences (God forbid) but I do believe that this story could have been a tad more self explanatory. It does take a concentrated effort to follow some of this story but I do think that if viewers stick with it they might find enough substance to keep them interested. One is the casting of actress Karen Black as a transsexual private eye which has become typical in some of the roles in her career. Leeson's film does have an interesting look to it not because it was shot on high-definition video but just a uniqueness from the bar that Ruby ventures to and the living quarters that the three clones live in. None of this means much without the performance of Swinton who's presence alone is worthy enough to give this a look and she does an exceptional job of giving all four of her characters a distinctive persona of they're own. The films script asks enough interesting questions about making copies in our own image and what people really want (or need) in terms of intimacy but the end result is a film that's amusing but comes across slightly cockeyed.