![]() A very tense atmosphere, a grounded but still very sci-fi plot and a very well cast affair makes this a film you will need to watch at least twice. – the pseudo-science stuff is kind of hit or miss, either gratuitous or far too simple, but luckily it is never dwelled on for more than a few moments + the film is mostly shot inside the dining room of the dinner party, using lots of close ups, which helps makes things feel a bit claustrophobic but never stifled It was just as I said to myself “wait, that can’t be right because of…” that one character’s face changed as if they had the same revelation, and then voiced that thought. + the tension builds very slowly, with many minor twists and turns going potentially unnoticed until you start to piece things together. It’s hard to explain exactly why without giving things away, but rest assured this is an ensemble cast And as of software problem fuero de maternidad 2013 dodge: onto lucy gray summary london road glasgow shops massey mcintyre gdp of usa 2011 128i bhopal to shivpuri all train Excellent location rated 9 Community pool, walking path, tot lot and tennis courts 2665 Prosperity Ave Apt 458, Fairfax, VA 22031-4927 is currently not for sale. + Emily Baldoni and Nicholas Brendon (as Emily and Mike, respectively) are the two ‘main’ characters, though all of the eight are equally important. There was no script, and each actor was given a page of notes regarding their characters before each major scene, so many twists are only discovered naturally by the “characters” as the real-life actors work them out. Director James Ward Byrkit, in his debut, specifically chose actors who did not know each other and had improvisational skills. Coherence is a 2013 psychological thriller revolving around eight people, four couples, who attend a dinner party on the night a comet is visible in the night sky. Whoa.I know this movie is older than most of my reviews, but it was recommended to me as a real mind-screw, and I just can’t say no to that. (And there was no recurring character called Joe on Roswell.) So, does this mean that all the weird, universe-shifting stuff that happens in Coherence perhaps started long before any of the dinner-party-goers noticed anything weird happening? Or has Coherence itself actually slipped into our universe from a parallel dimension? Now, it might be a funny in-joke if Nicholas Brendon, who plays Mike here, had actually been on Roswell, but in fact, in the exact same time period, he was playing Xander on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Laurie is stunned - she loved Roswell, and she doesn’t remember him at all. ![]() Here’s the thing that’s haunting me: Early on in the film, Laurie, a relative newcomer to the group, asks Mike what he does for a living, and he responds that he’s an actor, that he was on the hit 1990s show Roswell for four years as Joe, one of the main characters. How much of who we are is shaped by the things we think and do right at this moment? How inevitable are the things we think and do from moment to moment? If we met versions of ourselves who made just slightly different decisions, would we even notice? Writer-director James Ward Byrkit ( Rango) deploys some of the twistiest concepts from the realm where science becomes science fiction - stuff like Schroedinger’s cat and alternate realities - to warp the almost-clichéd one-location, one-evening dinner-party soap opera into a horror story of the human condition in the face of quantum philosophy. Stuff that I am loathe to reveal because part of the mind-bending fun of this deliciously tangled little SF flick is finding yourself in the frakked-up middle of the same weird situation as Em, Kevin, and their friends experience it when the power goes out and isolates this little group in the Los Angeles home of Mike (Nicholas Brendon) and Lee (Lorene Scafaria, writer-director of Seeking a Friend for the End of the World) the other couples are Amir (Alex Manugian: Rango) and Laurie (Lauren Maher: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End), the latter of whom is Kevin’s ex and Hugh (Hugo Armstrong) and Beth (Elizabeth Gracen). See, just as Em (Emily Foxler: Ghosts of Girlfriends Past) is having to decide whether to fly off to Vietnam with her boyfriend, Kevin (Maury Sterling: Veronica Mars, The A-Team), for four months to accompany him for his work, there’s this crazy comet passing by planet Earth, and it’s messing with cell phones and doing other insane stuff. Not when there are important, even life-changing, decisions to be made at the same time. Pro relationship tip: Do not go to a dinner party with a bunch of your friends who all have long-term interconnected relationships - with all the unresolved resentments and secret entanglements that can come with that - when there’s a quantum anomaly in the neighborhood. (what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto) I’m “biast” (pro): I’m hungry for smart science fiction
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