Dutch thriller pioneers smartphone ‘second screens’ in cinema
FilmMar 14, 2013
AMSTERDAM (AFP) ― Dutch thriller “APP,” about a mysterious personal assistant application that takes over mobile phones, requires viewers for the first time to look at their smartphones in the cinema to view extra footage.In the film, nefarious app “Iris” ― which happens to be the name of the personal assistant found on Apple’s iPhone, Siri, written backwards ― takes control of the smartphone of the heroine, 21-year-old psychology student Anna.“We wanted to make a film about mobile phones, about