Omni Loop

"You can't outrun your future."

2024 1h 51m EN

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6.0

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★6.0TMDB · 111

Science FictionDrama

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Diagnosed with a black hole growing inside her chest and stuck in a loop reliving the last five days of her life, a 55-year-old wife and mother from Miami, Florida decides to solve time travel in order to go back and be the person she always intended to be.

“You can't outrun your future.”

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Cast

Mary-Louise Parker
Zoya Lowe
Ayo Edebiri
Paula
Carlos Jacott
Donald Lowe
Hannah Pearl Utt
Jayne Lowe
Chris Witaske
Morris
Fern Katz
Sandra Lowe
Steven Maier
Chris
Jennifer Bassey
Carville Resident

Credits

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Director: Bernardo Britto
Writers: Bernardo Britto
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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Released 2 years ago.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Bernardo Britto, shot by Ava Benjamin Shorr. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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3 / 7

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Bernardo Britto shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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5 / 7

CAST

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Mary-Louise Parker and Ayo Edebiri and Carlos Jacott carry the top of the cast.

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Marketing tagline: "You can't outrun your future.".

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IMDB entry: tt28150132 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Bernardo Britto directs. Ava Benjamin Shorr behind the camera. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith scores. Bernardo Britto cuts. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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1Released 2 years ago.
2Directed by Bernardo Britto, shot by Ava Benjamin Shorr. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
3Original score by Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
4Editor Bernardo Britto shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
5Mary-Louise Parker and Ayo Edebiri and Carlos Jacott carry the top of the cast.
6Marketing tagline: "You can't outrun your future.".
7IMDB entry: tt28150132 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

The technical file

Cinematography: Ava Benjamin Shorr
Original score: Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
Editing: Bernardo Britto
Production design: Caity Birmingham
Costume design: Jaymes Neon
Sound: Jon Flores
Runtime: 111 min · 1h 51m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Original language: EN
IMDB: Omni Loop (2024)

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Brent Marchant2024-09-21
★ 9/10
Possessing profound philosophical, metaphysical and theoretical scientific knowledge can provide us with unique insights into the nature of existence and how reality comes into being, and aspiring to the attainment of that wisdom is undoubtedly a noble and worthwhile goal. But, in all truthfulness, what good is that knowledge if we lack the practical, plainspoken common sense to know what to do with it, particularly when it comes to shaping the destinies of our own lives? Does such a lofty objective truly lead to meaningful satisfaction and genuine fulfillment? Those are the questions faced by fifty-something writer and scientist Zoya Lowe (Mary-Louise Parker) when confronting her impending mortality, an outcome she’s successfully been able to circumvent by employing novel means to avoid it. The catch, however, is that she can only use these enigmatic measures to rewind the clock of her life by a week, a pattern that keeps repeating nearly identically in each case. They may help her stave off death, but do they produce an innately satisfying result? And why can she only go back in time for one week – why not longer and why not past the same end point in each case? After becoming bored with this endlessly repeating scenario, she decides to pursue a different course by launching an investigation into the mechanics of time travel with the aid of an ambitious laboratory assistant (Ayo Edibiri) with whom she has an unexpected chance encounter. However, once their work begins, they come no closer to finding a solution, prompting Zoya to engage in some heavy-duty introspection about such issues as did she make the most of her life up to the start of her final fateful week and what, in fact, constitutes the nature of bona fide corporeal fulfillment? Indeed, she must ask herself, what really matters in life and does her extensive knowledge truly help her understand it? Writer-director Bernardo Britto packs a great deal of genuinely thoughtful material into this intelligently conceived, smartly written, at times poetic story that explores heady sci-fi topics from an intensely personal, extremely intimate standpoint, something rarely seen in films from this genre. It accomplishes this without relying on an abundance of glitzy special effects, instead employing some of the most effective film editing I’ve ever seen, presenting vivid imagery with dazzling, dramatic, rapid-fire precision to captivate audiences and hold viewer attention. It also features what’s arguably Parker’s best on-screen performance, revealing a dynamic range of emotions from joy to sadness to vulnerability not often seen in characters in narratives such as this. There’s a fair amount of well-placed comic relief, too, inspired by the narratives of films like “Groundhog Day” (1993) but without being an obvious copycat. Admittedly, the picture drags a bit at times in the second half (at least by comparison to the sustained frenetic pace of its opening act), but that’s more than made up for by the emotionally affecting closing sequence, one that’s sure to melt viewers’ hearts. “Omni Loop” is unlike most other science fiction offerings that most of us have probably seen, but it’s one well worth a look, especially for the lingering impressions it’s likely to leave on us and the soul searching it’s destined to prompt, considerations we should all bear in mind when it comes to the lives we create for ourselves, undertakings that we should strive to handle skillfully, with a sense of joy and an aim for achieving the greatest degree of fulfillment attainable.

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