{"id":999,"date":"2021-03-31T09:53:22","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T07:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/31\/infinitum-subject-unknown-review-solo-time-loop-echoes-lockdown\/"},"modified":"2021-03-31T09:53:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T07:53:22","slug":"infinitum-subject-unknown-review-solo-time-loop-echoes-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/31\/infinitum-subject-unknown-review-solo-time-loop-echoes-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Infinitum: Subject Unknown review \u2013 solo time loop echoes lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

This iPhone-shot sci-fi drama with cameos from Ian McKellen and Conleth Hill is impressively realised, though the plot ultimately frustrates<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve got to admire wife and husband film-makers Tori and Matthew Butler-Hart. Stuck in their London flat at the start of the pandemic, the pair wrote a sci-fi script together: a Groundhog-Day-meets-The-Matrix tale of a woman trapped in a time loop. They shot it \u00e0 deux <\/em>on an iPhone; she stars, he directs. And there are a couple of cameos, from Ian McKellen and Game of Thrones actor Conleth Hill (who quite literally phoned in their performances from home). It\u2019s a genuinely impressive achievement, but for a film about the infinite possibilities of parallel universes, it\u2019s exasperatingly samey.<\/p>\n

Tori Butler-Hart is Jane, a woman who wakes up every morning tied to a chair in the attic of a London semi with no memory of how she got there. Outside, the streets are eerily quiet. Scared but resourceful, Jane finds a door hidden behind a pile of junk. A camera on the wall is watching \u2013 and from time to time the soundtrack picks up the voices of her observers, distorted and crackling.<\/p>\n

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\nThis iPhone-shot sci-fi drama with cameos from Ian McKellen and Conleth Hill is impressively realised, though the plot ultimately frustrates
\nYou\u2019ve got to admire wife and husband film-makers Tori and Matthew Butler-Hart. Stuck in their London flat at the start of the pandemic, the pair wrote a sci-fi script together: a Groundhog-Day-meets-The-Matrix tale of a woman trapped in a time loop. They shot it \u00e0 deux on an iPhone; she stars, he directs. And there are a couple of cameos, from Ian McKellen and Game of Thrones actor Conleth Hill (who quite literally phoned in their performances from home). It\u2019s a genuinely impressive achievement, but for a film about the infinite possibilities of parallel universes, it\u2019s exasperatingly samey.
\nTori Butler-Hart is Jane, a woman who wakes up every morning tied to a chair in the attic of a London semi with no memory of how she got there. Outside, the streets are eerily quiet. Scared but resourceful, Jane finds a door hidden behind a pile of junk. A camera on the wall is watching \u2013 and from time to time the soundtrack picks up the voices of her observers, distorted and crackling. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This iPhone-shot sci-fi drama with cameos from Ian McKellen and Conleth Hill is impressively realised, though the plot ultimately frustrates You\u2019ve got to admire wife and husband film-makers Tori and Matthew Butler-Hart. Stuck in their London flat at the start of the pandemic, the pair wrote a sci-fi script together: a Groundhog-Day-meets-The-Matrix tale of a …<\/p>\n

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