Teknolust (2002)

TEKNOLUST  (2002)  ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Lynn Hershman-Leeson
    Tilda Swinton, Jeremy Davies, James Urbaniak,
    Karen Black, John O'Keefe, Thomas Jay Ryan
Tilda Swinton plays a lab rat named Rosetta Stone, who downloads herself into her own bio-genetic research, creating a self-replicating virus that results in three more Tilda Swintons. The duplicate Tildas are supposed to be confined to their own virtual world, but sometimes they get out into the real one, where their limited social skills, learned from the dialogue in old movies, plus the fact that they all look like Tilda Swinton, makes it difficult to blend in. This is every bit as strange as it sounds, but the story's told with wit and imagination, and it's another one of those movies that you watch and think, of course, Tilda Swinton, who else would you cast in something like this? The visual highlight comes when the three cloned Tildas, all wrapped in billowing yellow sheaths, dance together, each in her own distinct style, an early 21st-century variation on the late 19th-century "Danse Serpentine".