Andrew Garfield and Yura Borisov shine in the technological nightmare of Artificial
Luca Guadagnino's film explores two decades of AI, between black humor and sober horror.
Andrew Garfield, now in his forties, moves with rubber limbs and a carefree smile, recalling a young enchanted flutist. Luca Guadagnino placed him alongside Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, presented as a "demon twink". Yura Borisov plays Ilya Sutskever, the Soviet pioneer of AI, with a gentle and thoughtful presence that keeps the film from sinking. The feature, titled Artificial, traces two decades of machine learning and technological neglect, showing how we arrived at the current crisis point. Monica Barbaro, Mark Rylance, Ike Barinholtz and Jason Schwartzman appear in this tale where black humor meets terror. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Simon Rich's screenplay swings between technocratic giddiness and sober horror.