Determined to find his daughter, Detective Danny Rourke investigates a series of robberies that may be linked to her disappearance. But the criminals he pursues are far more evil than he imagined: they hypnotize innocent people into committing crimes against their will. Nobody seems safe. To thwart them, Rourke will have to be wary of everyone…
Led by Ben Affleck and worn by Robert Rodriguez for two decades, “Hypnotic” offered the Cannes Film Festival its last night screening last night.
“My children were crawling when I was talking about the film. Today, they are working on it!” It took twenty years for Robert Rodriguez to bring to the screen Hypnotic, an original idea on which he has been working since 2002, and which he finally shot, helped by his children who had grown up (Rebel Rodriguez on music, Racer Max on the production and its other heirs in support of editing, special effects or storyboards). This accomplishment, Robert Rodriguez celebrates this evening at the Cannes Film Festival in Midnight, returning with great pleasure to the Croisette after his selections for Desperado (1995) and Sin City (2005). Carried by Ben Affleck, Alice Braga and William Fichtner (who accompanies the filmmaker to Cannes), Hypnotic is one of his favorite original stories.