Ambitious feature by Timm Kröger moves from lurid colour to stark black and white following an academic’s Alpine adventures in the metaverse
This twisted and twisty German feature takes the modish notion of the multiverse for a spin and sends it into a deep elliptical orbit. The result is strange and discomfiting, a bleak work of retro sci-fi noir, pristine as an Alpine mountain after a snowfall and just as crispy cold. Not all its gambits play out and it won’t be to everyone’s taste, but director Timm Kröger displays admirably reckless ambition with this very original yet oddly familiar work.
There’s certainly a lot of code-switching in genre terms going on, which contributes to the sense of familiarity but keeps undermining itself. A delicious, luridly coloured parody of a late 60s/early 70s talk show introduces main character Johannes (Jan Bülow) as the author of a “novel” (that he insists is nonfiction) about the aforementioned m-verse. The film then transitions into stark black and white in a 1962 setting, as if acting out the story in Johannes’ novel-memoir.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/dec/10/the-universal-theory-review-chilly-german-sci-fi-noir-splices-genres-with-style
Author : Leslie Felperin
Publish date : 2024-12-10 11:00:11
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