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Blue Fox Entertainment presents a film written and directed by Julie Delpy. Rated R (for brief language/sexual reference). Running time: 101 minutes. Opens Friday at local theaters. The French-American Delpy has renaissance abilities, as evidenced with the 2007 gem “Two Days in Paris,” for which she wrote, directed, produced, played the lead, edited and composed the soundtrack but this time around, she’s the writer-director-star of a clumsy, off-putting, uninvolving hybrid of domestic tragedy and sci-fi drama with zero payoffs and one of the most infuriating codas of any movie this century. “My Zoe” takes place in an unspecified near future, with Delpy’s Isabelle a recently divorced genetic scientist who lives in Berlin with her 6-year-old daughter Zoe (Sophia Ally) and seems to spend most of her free time bickering and arguing with her British ex-husband James (Richard Armitage), a controlling and emotionally abusive lout who shares custody of Z
My Zoe combines marital melodrama with sci-fi flick, to mixed results
Michael O Sullivan, The Washington Post
Feb. 23, 2021
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1of3Julie Delpy, top, and Sophia Ally in My Zoe. Stephan Rabold/Blue Fox EntertainmentShow MoreShow Less
2of3From left, Julie Delpy, Sophia Ally and Richard Armitage in My Zoe. Stephan Rabold/Blue Fox EntertainmentShow MoreShow Less
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To watch the trailer for My Zoe, you d expect a movie about a mother so wracked with grief over the death of her young daughter that she tuns to cloning to bring her back. And to be fair, the film - which tries to grapple with ethical questions of science, but without real commitment - does eventually get us there.