Synopsis
Love makes the world go round... and around... and around
A man's attempts to construct the ultimate romantic weekend backfire when his quest for perfection traps his lover in an infinite loop.
2014 Directed by Hugh Sullivan
A man's attempts to construct the ultimate romantic weekend backfire when his quest for perfection traps his lover in an infinite loop.
인피니트 맨, 无限循环, האינסופי, O Homem Infinito, 搶救愛情的時空旅人, Бесконечный человек
imagine if Edgar Wright remade "Timecrimes" as a smart & sensitive Australian romantic comedy. Je t'aime je t'aime.
I normally go for movies like this, I even have a curated list here on the topic of deja vu and time loop tales like this one. Technically the movie is great. Performances are good, too. It just falls into that category of characters I can’t relate to (though the lead male is the same sort of control freak that I am wired to be). The woman might be more controlling than the lead man. The interfering love interest talks philosophically but is as dumb as a third wheel can be. And that’s ALL of the characters. Look, I know this is a “rom com” but the sci-fi elements are treated so matter-of-factly that it kind of kills the realism…
☆"I just get so angry with myself, and my other selves."☆
Film Recommendation #2 – from koberulz.
What perfect timing. The day after my annual watch of Groundhog Day, the second film lined up from your recommendations is another comedy with a time loop twist, the sci-fi sorta romcom The Infinite Man. Perhaps inspired by that legendary Harold Ramis work of three decades ago, writer/director/editor Hugh Sullivan has a unique take on the tricky subgenre. Along with the sensational and criminally underseen Predestination, maybe Australia is the place where one of my favorite storylines comes together best.
Scientist Dean (Josh McConville) and his girlfriend Lana (Hannah Marshall) sometimes get a little tense, and even Dean knows it's his fault. Though…
Another movie to add to the long list of good Australian and or time travel movies that came out in 2014.
Worth the watch.
Hugh Sullivan's debut film first appeared at last years SXSW festival an unknown quantity and left praised to the hilt. That has continued over the past year and it is easy to understand why. The film is a hidden independent gem that showcases Sullivan's talents and marks him down as a director to keep an eye on over the next few years.
Attempting to tell many details of the plot without revealing spoilers is a tough ask. The premise is centred around Dean and his girlfriend Lana, arriving at the same hotel as the year before, hoping to celebrate their anniversary. Dean is ridiculously fastidious, planning everything down to the last second, desperate to please Lana. His anniversary present to…
beginning was sluggish, but i slowly fell in love with it now i have to watch it again from the
O maluco quer quantificar o próprio amor… pode isso?
O mesmo foi “corneado” por ele mesmo.
Linhas temporais convergindo e dois pulos de um ano.
Roteiro que o Nolan jamais ousou fazer.
Tem um emocionado que não é Grego, o cientista e a mulher que usa o mesmo vestido durante todo o multiverso.
Os dois atores são competentes.
Ele é mais exigido.
As lacunas sendo preenchidas neste tipo de filme é, particularmente, o mais legal que acho.
"He killed himself?"
"His other self."
"His other self. God, that is so typical."
What a welcome surprise from the norm. A witty, intelligent time-travelling rom-com from Down Under! Now if only it would get released stateside...
Time loop cinema, take 58. This Australian one pre-dates the recent 2020s boom of them, though. It's an oddly toned "romance" of sorts about a neurotic scientist guy whose attempt to re-stage a special weekend he once had with his girlfriend goes a little awry, and all of a sudden they seem poised to break up, compelling him to travel back in time using headgear he invented and fix the matter. Without giving too much away (which also saves me the trouble of figuring out how to describe this quadruple helix of a plot anyway), what we have here is "Primer" (so much time traveling that you lose track of what the hell's going on) on top of "The One…
Original but not sufficiently effective low budget, intimate time travel misadventure; think Primer (2004) except delivered via the medium of a romantic comedy instead of tedious indie mumblecore. As with Primer, Memento, and other such gimmick-centred films I'm sure a subsequent viewing would prove rewarding. However as I said of the original Spanish Open Your Eyes (1997), for this to work you have to be sufficiently engaged, emotionally as well as intellectually, the first time to feel like a second go-around. So I could admire the cleverness of The Infinite Man, just as much as I enjoyed the screenplay that made me laugh out loud on multiple occasions. So the comedy part was working well (great to see an unexpected…
"How will i know which one's the real you?"
"Just listen to your heart...
...also listen to the earpiece and i'll tell you"
A surprisingly complex load of romantic time loop fun from the Aussies, with more than a fair share of humour sprinkled over things to give it some flavour. Must not mention Palm Springs. Must not ment..oh, bollocks.
There are only (technically) three people in it and the two leads are fantastic, but I'll be brutally honest I was getting a little tired of the simple-but-not-really story and would've liked just anything else to spruce up the narrative a bit, more than the aforementioned jokes. What you see is what you get.
Not as enjoyable as a TimeCrimes but more accessible and frankly likable than say, a Primer, which isn't that good anyway.
*As a constituent part of the Latin American Facebook / WhatsApp Letterboxd Group film exchange*.
Forced crude humor and time-travel paradoxes with huge plot holes: How am I supposed to empathize with a relationship when both people are full of themselves? Also, what is the correct reading of the male protagonist? Low IQ, mentally impaired, or simply an insulting and reductive parody of people that are insecure with stabilizing a serious relationship that is currently in a maturing process?
How was even that machine constructed? In what era are the couple living so making your own home-made time machine (lol) is so standard and easy? And if it is the present-time, how come he had all the required technological props…