The Hummingbird Project
Directed by:
Kim NguyenScreenplay:
Kim NguyenCinematography:
Nicolas BolducComposer:
Yves GourmeurCast:
Jesse Eisenberg, Alexander Skarsgård, Salma Hayek, Michael Mando, Johan Heldenbergh, Ayisha Issa, Sarah Goldberg, Frank Schorpion, Kwasi Songui, Conrad Pla (more)VOD (1)
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Jesse Eisenberg and an almost unrecognizable Alexander Skarsgård play cousins Vincent and Anton Zalesky in Academy Award–nominated director Kim Nguyen's The Hummingbird Project. Determined to create a more efficient way of transmitting information between stock exchanges, the cousins scheme to lay fibre-optic cable from Kansas City to New York, gaining them and their clients crucial seconds in order to trounce their competitors. Vincent — the force behind the scheme — is a frantic dreamer who pursues his ideas with zealot-like intensity while promising everyone the moon. Anton is the brains, a socially awkward data wiz with few friends besides Vincent. Both end up in the crosshairs of their ruthless former employer Eva Torres (Salma Hayek), a Wall Street lion willing to devour anyone unlucky enough to get in her way. Unfortunately, Anton hasn't entirely figured out how to make the cable connection fast enough to warrant the expense. As time runs out, Vincent's claims of grandeur get progressively wilder. (Toronto International Film Festival)
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A film with a great and very important idea for me personally: The world is becoming more and more interconnected, everything is accelerating, but what does one really have from it all? I had no idea that The Hummingbird Project had come into being, and I am even more surprised. At first I was afraid it would be a variation on Fincher's The Social Network, but unnecessarily - it's something completely different, but with the equally excellent Jesse Eisenberg, the surprising Alexander Skarsgård and the divine Salma Hayek, who got the least interesting character, but it was still a joy to see her act in something that's not a silly comedy.
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