ON THE COVER – Award-winning at Séries Mania, the thriller boldly retraces the clash between the genius of the chessboard and the Deep Blue computer. And touches on our questions about artificial intelligence.
The game of chess has demonstrated that it has a reservoir of hypnotic dramaturgy. Of Seventh Seal by Ingmar Bergman, where a crusading knight consents to a game with the Grim Reaper, in Queen’s game from Netflix, which revealed Anya Taylor-Joy. Online on Arte.tv and on air Thursday on the Franco-German channel until , Rematch is no exception to the rule.
Deserved winner of the flagship prize for best international series at Séries Mania in March, the fiction traces the confrontation between Garry Kasparov and the IBM super computer Deep Blue. More specifically their return match in 1997, which saw the machine have the upper hand over the Russian world champion. Six parts transformed into a dizzying psychological and cerebral thriller where paranoia ends up sneaking in.
Creative audacity
Each face-to-face encounter around the chessboard is filmed like an encounter in the ring. With disturbing resonances with our questions about artificial intelligence, Rematch combines real audacity…
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