Earlier this month, French musician Marc Collin’s debut feature Le Choc du Futur was selected to be released via Amazon Prime as part of Amazon’s South by Southwest online partnership. In the film, Collins showcased a day-in-the-life of an up-and-coming electronic composer who’s working to create a name for herself in an industry full of men.
Ana (Alma Jodorowsky) portrays a striving electronic composer who works around the clock. For someone like myself, who is unfamiliar with the ins and outs of the music world, this was a refreshing look into the production of a genre that’s hugely popular today.
Literally, from the moment Ana wakes up, we get a glimpse of the unglamorous side of production in the ’70s that is obviously vastly different compared to the electronic tools that are available today with a literal click of a button. Or a computer program. Not only does she face the difficulty of creating a song she’s proud of, but throughout the film, Ana is continuously bombarded with men giving their two cents of what she can or cannot do. Ultimately, this paints a picture of wanting more than nothing than the protagonist to prevail at the end.
As much as we are rooting for Ana, the movie’s plot lacked any real captivating hold throughout the entire film. The ear-catching soundtrack couldn’t make up for the story falling flat and missing the mark at becoming anything more than an A-Z walkthrough of a music composer’s life and jam-packed into one day that eventually cranked out a 1 hour and 24-minute flick.
Le Choc du Futur does its fair share of beating into the idea of collaboration over competition but didn’t do much to shock the viewer.
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