The good news is Advantageous is an excellent science-fiction movie; the bad news is it screens only on August 14. What makes this film great, which is also what made Alex Garland’s Ex Machina great, is it’s not about the future but our moment and the technological and economic forces that are shaping this moment. In Advantageous, an employee, Gwen (Jacqueline Kim), of bio-tech corporation Center for Advanced Health and Living, is retired because she is too old (she is in her mid- to late-30s). The corporation is all about marketing, and middle-aged-looking women are just not marketable…
Advantageous plays at Northwest Film Forum on Friday, August 14. Director Jennifer Phang and editor Sean Gillane will be in attendance. Happy hour at 7:30 p.m., film at 8:15 p.m.
