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"Advantageous"
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U.S. Dramatic
Age discrimination, sexism and maternal love collide in "Advantageous," a science-fiction allegory that gets a lot of mileage out a limited budget. In a near future, Gwen Koh (played by Jacqueline Kim) finds her job as a biotech firm's marketing executive in danger, because the company wants a younger spokesperson. Fearful that her teen daughter Jules (Samantha Kim) will lose out on prep school and other advantages, Gwen makes a fateful decision — to use her company's new technology, which would transfer her brain and personality into a younger body. Director Jennifer Phang, who co-wrote with her leading lady, uses simple visual and screenplay touches to suggest a precarious future for the human race. What's more immediate and compelling is the fact that the future is just as rough on women over 40 as today's society is.
- Sean P. Means
"Advantageous" is screening in the U.S. Dramatic competition of the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. It screens again: Saturday, 3:30 p.m., Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, Salt Lake City.