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Mr. Nobody

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Belgium, Germany, Canada · 2009
2h 21m
Director Jaco Van Dormael
Starring Jared Leto, Sarah Polley, Diane Kruger, Linh-Dan Pham
Genre Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Science Fiction

In 2092, the human race has achieved immortality through a scientific process that allows for the endless renewal of cells. Nemo Nobody, a 118 year old man, is the last mortal human on Earth. As the rest of the world watches in awe, Nemo reflects upon his long life in this surreal sci-fi film.

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75

The A.V. Club by Ben Kenigsberg

As philosophy, Mr. Nobody seems sillier than it is profound. But in a parallel reality, more movies would have this degree of insane ambition.

60

Variety by Boyd van Hoeij

Though a lot of it is well written and directed and, quite often, funny or poignant, the individual scenes rarely become part of a larger whole.

38

Slant Magazine by Chuck Bowen

The only truly graspable notion the film can be said to put forth is one of increasingly tedious sci-fi-romantic genre busy-ness.

80

The Hollywood Reporter by Deborah Young

Van Dormael's intriguing script is more than matched in his flamboyant direction of this 2-hour-plus tale, heroically edited by Matyas Veress and Susan Shipton into a fluid, generally understandable narrative.

83

Portland Oregonian by Marc Mohan

van Dormael’s vivid visual sense and genuine curiosity about the nature of love and life, time and death, make it well worth surrendering to his imagination for a while.

75

McClatchy-Tribune News Service by Roger Moore

Writer-director Jaco Van Dormael (“Toto the Hero”) spins flashbacks and time-lapse photography, stunning montages, whirling, circling cameras and stunning underwater, deep space and Martian landscape photography into a film that is as intentionally opaque as it is overlong.

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