Imitation Girl

I was LOVING this fresh, fun little flick... until the end. Because there was no end. I mean, no conclusive story; or anything like anything like that. The writer went home early; and the janitor cleaned up. The End.

Takes inspiration from Scarlett Johansson's Under the Skin and Ridley Scott's Prometheus and provides a quirky narrative about an alien who clones itself from a photograph of a * star and sets out to learn how its new body functions. Meanwhile, its source material is busy trying to enrich her life and break out of a futile existence as a drug dependent sex worker. The two stories hold interest as the characters are well acted by Lauren Ashley Carter and ultimately they dovetail into a meeting of the two that leaves more questions than answers. With an abrupt ending to the film, I was left scratching my head.

An interesting plot idea. Alien entity comes to earth and becomes a human girl from a magazine cover photo. Learns English and parsi, music and life on Earth. The only thing I didn't like about this movie was the foreshortened ending. The story could have been developed with another twenty minutes to show what happens after imitation Girl means her identical Earth girl twin. Each curious about the others' existence.

So funny to read reviews that now use identity directing as a base for like or dislike. "More female directed sci-fi please" is just a laughable base for a review opinion. Anyways, the movie definitely resembles Under the Skin and it just was kind of dull. If this would have been part of a larger plot it would have been fine. A whole movie was too much. Ending was awful. Watch if you like. I didn't get much out of this. More 3rd cousin twice removed sci-fi directors please!!! Couldn't resist.

This is a very sublime mystery scifi that leans toward potential sociopolitical commentary through the juxtaposition of the character doubles. Definitely influenced by Kieslowski's The Double Life of Véronique. Very glad to have found this gem. Also, surprised Lewis Black appears in a brief non comedy cameo role.

The other reviews here are praising the director since it is written by a woman and has a female lead. Ignoring this, I would say that it was an interesting movie. Slow-paced drama of what it would be like if an outside being tried to be human. The movie was building up to the ending but ended up being to abstract.

This film seems to be a cross between Starman (1984) and The Double Life of Veronique (1991) with an emphasis on clashing cultures. An alien imitation, born with an assist from a magazine cover, takes human form and absorbs the Farsi language and gentle culture of two Iranian characters living in the rural southwestern United States: her human * star counterpart (and look-alike) lives an urban lifestyle of sex, drugs and clubbing and she misses an opportunity to leave her chosen work in the sex trade. The duo meet and the open ended finale works for this short mysterious film.

I'm all for female directed sci-fi but I'd like for it to also make sense. The story was dull and unoriginal and the acting was stiff and unbelievable.