When it was released in its country of origin, this science fiction film was a huge flop. However, once in French cinemas, it met with unexpected success!
Cube is a Canadian science fiction film released in 1997. It follows a police officer, an architect, a mathematics student, a psychologist and an autistic man who are locked in a 2.0 prison where there is an endless labyrinth, but also shaped rooms cubes that communicate with each other, but there are also deadly traps hidden there. The prisoners realize that they all have a gift and it is the key to their escape. But to have group cohesion good enough to successfully escape, they must put their conflicts aside. At the time of its release in Canada, Cube made a huge flop. It was also withdrawn from cinemas only a few days after its release. Despite everything, it won the Best Canadian First Film Award at the Toronto Film Festival in 1997. In France, the success of this science fiction film was much better than in Canada with more than 910,000 admissions.
Cube inspired by the director’s life
Against all expectations, this film was born from the claustrophobia of director Vincenzo Natali. At the time, he was living in a studio with the writers of CubeAndre Bijelic and Graeme Manson. “We realized after a while that we were telling our own experiences in the script. The three of us were long-time friends and we lived together in a tiny studio. We felt like we were just friends. ants in a world of giants, understanding nothing of the forces that rush us through life. The film is a nightmarish version of this feeling, a dream of escaping from it.”he said.
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Cube : only one room for filming
Cinematographer Derek Rogers said the entire sci-fi film was “touring in one room”. “We worked in a narrow space, but by using it intelligently, we gave the impression of an immense cube. It was like doing a puzzle. In reality, the actors could only enter or exit through one door. The most exciting thing is that some spectators will not even suspect that there was only one set.”he explained. Cube was also filmed in a storage warehouse.
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