The story of a 7-year-old AI humanoid is the Japanese director's version of a high-concept tech fairy tale. Except that it mostly just sits there.

The Palme d'Or winner sits down with THR to discuss his latest Cannes entry — a sci-fi drama about an android child — his unexpectedly optimistic take on AI, and the results he…

The filmmaker's 17th feature imagines the world in the near future, at a time when artificial intelligence has come to dominate virtually every aspect of our lives.