Fantasia’09 Review: The Clone Returns Home

Like the various incarnations of clones that follow the death of the film’s protagonist, Kanji Nakajima’s The Clone Returns Home feels soulless, an empty shell where ideas thrive but without enough substance to impact the genre. Nakajima, like Asimov or Tarkovsky, is interested in questions of ethics and philosophy: do clones contain but the resonance of their originals? Unlike his Russian counterparts, Nakajima’s film fails to make these ideas into an engaging experience. Read more »