Personhood

6/20/2026

At first, I thought the underlying message of Personhood (2025) was that only an “artificial person” — i.e., a very expensive sex doll — could love someone with scoliosis, but it’s okay because Gala (Agathe Levi) appears to attain sentience in the end, so she’s as much a person as you and I, sort of? If so, the implication would be that for something possible to happen — a drop-dead gorgeous woman falling in love with a man with a curved spine — something impossible must happen first — a robot achieving humanity. Writer-director Richard Jordan makes it look a lot less impossible by having a very human, very attractive actress play Gala. Rather than a machine becoming a person, we get a person pretending to be a machine and not really doing a good job of it. According to IMDb, the