{"id":15666,"date":"2026-10-20T22:32:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T19:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/?p=15666"},"modified":"2026-10-20T23:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T20:18:15","slug":"klara-and-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/2026\/10\/20\/klara-and-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Klara And The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

Klara (Jenna Ortega) is an \u201cartificial friend\u201d who longs for a human owner \u2014 until she\u2019s bought by Josie (Mia Tharia) and learns that life is complicated.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s a strange time to make a film about a likeable robot who dreams of a relationship with a human owner, because the last thing most people want to hear about now is artificial intelligence. But this odd little story, taken from a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, has more to say about humanity than AI. If little of Taika Waititi\u2019s film adaptation feels entirely original, there\u2019s real charm in the quest of Jenna Ortega\u2019s Klara to understand what makes humans tick, and where she belongs in the world.<\/p>\n

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We first meet Klara in the shop where she eagerly awaits purchase, petitioning the sun she glimpses each morning that this will be the day she finds her human owner. After watching the world through a window to try to understand love, life and death, she finally finds a home with Josie (Mia Tharia) and her mum Chrissie (Amy Adams). But there Klara learns about grief, and finds that her prayers to the sun can\u2019t solve every problem.<\/p>\n

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Waititi just about keeps the story whimsical rather than twee…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Josie\u2019s little family is shaped by grief, which strangely seems to be a near-constant in stories about humanity\u2019s theoretical relationship with sentient robots. From Isaac Asimov\u2019s The Bicentennial Man<\/em> to Steven Spielberg\u2019s A.I.: Artificial Intelligence<\/em> or Kogonada\u2019s After Yang<\/em>, the ability of artificial humans to replace those we\u2019ve lost, or offer true human companionship, seems to be a constant. That melancholy streak also reflects Ishiguro\u2019s Never Let Me Go<\/em>, and the questions about robotic service and loyalty even recall his earlier The Remains Of The Day<\/em>, but Klara\u2019s naivety and innocence make this more of a fairy tale than either. Waititi\u2019s setting \u2014 a beautiful house surrounded by ripe cornfields \u2014 adds to the impression that we\u2019re in some kind of Oz, even if occasional scenes in a post-World War III big city suggest more of a dystopian Blade Runner<\/em> reality existing just past the horizon.<\/p>\n

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Waititi, who\u2019s at his strongest with stories about outsiders \u2014 such as Hunt For The Wilderpeople<\/em>, Boy<\/em> and Thor: Ragnarok<\/em> \u2014 just about keeps the story whimsical rather than twee as Klara tries to make Josie and her mother happy, helped by Ortega\u2019s wide-eyed wonder and endless determination. But otherwise the tone is uneven and lumpy. There\u2019s broad comedy in scenes with Josie\u2019s monstrous classmates and much gentler laughs in Klara\u2019s attempts to get to grips with human behaviour; the quiet tragedy in Chrissie\u2019s attempts to manage her grief become monstrous in the way she asks Klara to help her. And just as you\u2019re lulled into accepting this as a gentle fable about the things we sacrifice for those we love, there\u2019s a moment of disturbing violence. It\u2019s as if all the parts of this story are interesting in their own right, but none of them quite fit together as they should.<\/p>\n

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Jenna Ortega anchors a fable of love, pain and sunshine as the sort of AI that might win sceptics over \u2014 though she can\u2019t compensate for a wildly inconsistent tone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Klara (Jenna Ortega) is an \u201cartificial friend\u201d who longs for a human owner \u2014 until she\u2019s bought by Josie (Mia Tharia) and learns that life is complicated. It\u2019s a strange time to make a film about a likeable robot who dreams of a relationship with a human owner, because the last thing most people want […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-47"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15668,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15666\/revisions\/15668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}