Lunch on the Grass

Nov 8, 2019

0h 7m

★ 5.2

Overview

Exploring themes of science, religion and alien life, the short film centres around a “brilliant” scientist who finds his whole perspective on life falling apart after an unexpected encounter during a picnic by a lake. Having built his career and fame around skepticism, his life loses all meaning and he’s left a broken man by this experience that challenges all he’s stood for.

Genres

Animation

Comedy

Science Fiction

Production Companies

Gobelins

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Cast

Narrator (voice)

Robert Bennett

Etienne (voice)

Adrian Danatt

Magali (voice)

Liya Han

High school student Akira Mizutane, whose mother is a genius scientist, spends his days trying to follow in his mother's footsteps. However, he feels that he has reached a dead end in his research and becomes depressed, thinking that he doesn't have the talent his mother has. One day, Akira is advised by a friend that a man can become more powerful by having a girlfriend, so he creates an artificial human girlfriend, "No. 0".

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