Ever wonder what The 6th Day would have been like with quality actors, better writing, superior graphics... and in French? Me too. The French science fiction movie, Chrysalis, looks like everything you've wanted in a futuristic cloning/memory stealing movie minus the annoying hench-people. In a dark, dystopian future some people don't have to die. Even if you're horribly damaged, they can bring you back but you'll have to pay a steep price. Trailer and movie details after the jump.

The chrysalis is a machine that can erase, transfer or manipulate memories. A burnt out police officer, David Hoffman, has his memory taken and wiped out by a renegade secret service agent. Hoffman is on a quest to find his memories and figure out why the people he's killed keep coming back to life. [Coventrey Telegraph.net and Chrysalis]

10:48 AM on Thu May 8 2008
By Meredith Woerner
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moff at 11:06 AM on 05/08/08
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Sometimes you read a headline and you just nod and go, "Yep, yep."
squalor at 11:09 AM on 05/08/08
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The trailer feels a lot like Minority Report, especially with the 3D-surgery dealie.
shan6 at 11:16 AM on 05/08/08
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@moff: My first reaction was something along the lines of "probably".
Miranda Kali at 11:34 AM on 05/08/08
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As long as there's a good Cabernet and some brie in it for me, I'm fine with this.
froggy at 11:35 AM on 05/08/08
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"A burnt out police officer, David Hoffman, has his memory taken and wiped out by a renegade secret service agent. Hoffman is on a quest to find his memories and figure out why the people he's killed keep coming back to life."

so... how does this work exactly?? yep... not sure this one would be much better then 6th Day. Plus, come on, you got The Governator in 6th Day. I mean all the Arnold movies now get two extra points for making me think of him on the halls of the Capitol in Sacramento.
Belabras at 11:43 AM on 05/08/08
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Sounds a lot like John Walter Williams' Reap the Whirlwind to me.
Belabras at 11:46 AM on 05/08/08
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Make that Walter Jon Williams' Voice of the Whirlwind.

Someday I'll learn to fact check before I post and not after.
CMG at 12:08 PM on 05/08/08
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@Miranda Kali: but, but, that's how they lure you in!
russdanger at 12:16 PM on 05/08/08
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Dammit, I cannot watch le video while I am at work!

Hey, the French are OK. They can sure get pretty cranky, but they did help us make our country. I loved that crazy-ass thing with Anubis, (Immortal (2004)
Immortel Ad Vitam) Netflix has it, rent it, it's cool.
moff at 12:23 PM on 05/08/08
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@russdanger: They gave us Emmanuelle, and that was pretty cool.
diverguy at 01:22 PM on 05/08/08
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The French have one of the best health care systems in the world (better than Canada's) and a 4 day work week. How bad can it be?
jchasse at 02:07 PM on 05/08/08
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@diverguy:

Ehhhh....I don't know about you but since the introduction of broadband I haven't had more than a 1-2 day workweek =)
jchasse at 02:10 PM on 05/08/08
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@Belabras: Nice call I pull that one off the shelf every couple of years.

When I was into the whole mercenary for hire thing I also enjoyed James B Johnson's "Mindhopper".
twophrasebark at 02:16 PM on 05/08/08
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tyr540 at 05:20 PM on 05/08/08
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Je peux lire ça. Je téléphonerai.
Metropolis at 05:33 AM on 05/09/08
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The 6th Day pisses me off to no end. He is perfectly fine with allowing HIS clone to survive and live happily ever after but is completely against the rich, evil coporate from doing so. How many people does he kill in that final blast. He's a freaking murderer. God I hate that movie. Worst movie in the world.
deckard97 at 06:07 AM on 05/09/08
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@diverguy: ...and their women are HOT. That is to say that they have a hawtie ratio much higher then our own. I guess it comes from more years of natural selection and less fast food. Throw in a less puritanical society, good food, well, they just enjoy life more.