Exploring a different facet of the comic book genre, Pedro Morelli's Zoom
is a comedy drama centered on Emma (Alison Pill) a sex doll factory worker by
day and comic book artist by night who creates Edward (Gael Garcia Bernal), a
filmmaker struggling to direct a film about Michelle (Mariana Ximenes), a
Brazilian model trying to write a novel about Emma (Pill).
So…who is real?
Opening in theaters on September 2, Zoom also stars Tyler Labine, Jason
Priestley, Claudia Ohana, Michael Eklund, Jennifer Irwin, and Don McKeller.
Emma (Alison Pill) is a comic-book artist who works by day in a factory
that makes sex dolls, which is messing with her head. In an attempt to get
herself closer to the plastic fantasy image that surrounds her, she makes a
rash decision. Then she decides she wants to reverse that choice, but it’s too
late and too expensive to turn back. Fortunately, Michelle (Mariana Ximenes),
the aspiring novelist writing Emma’s story, gives her a way out. In turn, Emma
controls the story of Edward (Gael García Bernal, also appearing at the
Festival in Desierto), the filmmaker at the centre of the comic book she’s
drawing. He’s a successful action-movie director with no shortage of confidence
and an urge to make more artistically ambitious films. But, in a cruel joke,
Emma takes her pen to the root of this man’s vanity, shrivelling his confidence
instantly. He begins to struggle with his film about Michelle, a Brazilian
model living in Toronto and trying to write a novel about a cartoonist. In a
bid to escape the fashion world and immerse herself in her writing, she returns
to Brazil, finding a small fishing village where the pressure to complete her
novel leads her to Alice (Cláudia Ohana), a hotel owner who changes her life.
Of course, the hand of Michelle’s creator, the action-movie director who wants
to be a serious auteur, is never far behind.
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