'Zoom' Weaves an Intricate Tale About Imagination and Reality
With cartoon sequences reminiscent of A-ha’s “Take on Me” music video.
Zoom already premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last year, and even received an Ithaca International Fantastic Film Festival’s best movie nod. Slated to release next month to a worldwide audience, the project now dishes out its first trailer. The plot centers around a sex doll creator played by Allison Pill (Newsroom, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World), who also illustrates cartoons as a hobby. To vent out her frustrations in life, she draws her ideal man, Edward (played by Gael Garcia Bernal) — a suave movie director who is producing a film about a model/writer named Michelle (Mariana Ximenes). In a super meta twist, it turns out that Michelle is also writing about Emma. Things soon get more interesting when drugs get involved and Emma has to change a few things about her “imaginary” dream man.
The official plot description is: “A multi-dimensional interface between a comic book artist, a novelist, and a film director. Each lives in a separate reality but authors a story about one of the others.”
Zoom will be released in theaters on September 2nd.
