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movie review - Coherence

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

During the passage of a comet, a group of friends have a dinner party. Things are a bit on-edge because of the general tension due to the comet's passing. Then the power cuts out and we veer hard into science-fiction because we start to encounter copies of the dinner party. It's not at all clear what's going on and although a good deal of the dialogue seems pretty stiff and oddly timed we're soon drawn along in a rising tide of paranoia and its usual effects. Before long it's no longer clear that there's any going back because it's not certain that the party is in indeed the same party that started the night together. Or in fact, if that means anything when there are multiple copies of the same people involved.

I liked it for what it was trying to do. If you can look past the rough edges, give it a look.

Recommended.