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The Guardian - Culture: Film Edit Unfollow Swan Song review – Mahershala Ali is twice the man in melancholy sci-fi mystery by Peter Bradshaw Dec 14, 2021 Ali convincingly plays a man with a terminal illness who has a doppelganger made of himself in this unsettling, elegant film Mahershala Ali gives a heartfelt performance in this elegant and rather melancholy sci-fi mystery with which Irish film-maker Benjamin Cleary makes his impressive feature debut. It’s an unsettling picture in the tradition of John Frankenheimer’s Seconds or Alex Garland’s Ex Machina. The time is the not-too-distant future in which Cameron (Ali) is a graphic designer married to Poppy (Naomie Harris), whom he met-cute one morning on a commuter train over a misunderstanding concerning a candy bar (a micro-comedy-of-errors routine which I do have to say has already been used in a number of short films). They now have a small son. But Cameron has a terminal illness and fears revealing it to Poppy will devastate her, as she is only just getting over a family tragedy. Continue reading... Continue Reading

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