Lucy

Screening Dates:
Sat 27 September 6:15pm

Director: Luc Besson
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman

Tricked into delivering a briefcase by her devious boyfriend, a student is then kidnapped and surgically implanted with a vial containing a mysterious substance.

Although the substance is designed to dramatically increase the brain’s processing power, it may kill her if it leaks into her body – which it does.

Aided by a sympathetic police captain (Waked, Syriana), she rushes desperately to seek help from renowned psychologist Professor Samuel Norman (Freeman), even as her cerebral skills are multiplying exponentially.

Celebrated for creating tough female characters (La Femme Nikita, The Fifth Element’s Leeloo), writer-director Luc Besson has cast one of our strongest, most versatile young stars, Scarlett Johansson, in the title role in a story which, as medical science comes ever closer to enhancing human intelligence, possesses a stark topicality.