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‘The Assessment’ Review: Alicia Vikander Stars In Futuristic Story Where Government Will Decide If You Are Qualified To Have Kids, A Sci-Fi Premise All Too Plausible – Toronto Film Festival
A review of 'The Assessment' with Alicia VIkander, Elizabeth Olson, and Himesh Patel in futuristic story of Government control over having a child
In the case of French director Fleur Fortune’s feature debut it is Alicia Vikander as Virginia, the cold as ice- all business assessor who wears a uniform of sorts and has her hair tightly wound in a bun to indicate this is a woman who will not be messed with. At first it seems like a normal kind of interview, but as the days go by Virginia, channeling her inner improvisational actor, starts being essentially a bratty two year old even though this is a grown woman playing this all out and clearly testing the patience of our auditioning couple. Nevertheless it is dramatically compelling, especially since in our f**ked-up world today the implausible is suddenly becoming the plausible, and with government interference involving what women can – and can’t – do with their own bodies becoming the law in many states, who is to say a frightening future administration just might take us all down the rabbit hole?
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