Simone

Is the time approaching when a persona in its entirety could be a mere fabrication of modern culture and technology? Or did Hollywood enter that time long ago? Either way Viktor Taransky (Al Pacino) finds himself growing more and more aware of the media-obsessed culture in which he tries to earn his ...more

Writer Andrew Niccol (The Truman Show, Gattaca) integrates his unique alter-world feel into the more mainstream Hollywood genre, if only to laugh in its face, with Simone. Filmmaker Viktor Taransky's (Al Pacino) own annoyance with popular culture in the film allows laughs at the film industry and the Hollywood scene themselves. Pacino commands the screen as a humorous force, reiterating his appeal as a wide-range performer, while revisiting Truman Show themes of "creator" in relation to ...more

Release Date: 01/21/2003