But everything changes when a rich woman, who lives in a rented stone house with her husband, disappears in a blizzard.
She lives with her grumpy husband Michel (Denis Menochet) but is having a torrid affair with another farmer, Joseph (Damien Bonnard), a young reclusive farmer on a downward spiral since his mother died. She makes her rounds along cliffside roads to handle insurance claims for farmers who live there. It also manages to convey - credibly - the concept of time travel with virtually no special effects.Īlice (Laure Calamy) is a married woman who lives in a tiny mountainous French hamlet.
It’s almost like a stage play, as the action rarely strays from the apartment and the cafe. Can they right the wrongs and reset time? Or have they permanently upset the cosmic space-time continuum?īeyond the Infinite Two Minutes is a brilliantly-made, low-budget sci-fi comedy. Like an angry yakuza gangster who appears in the near future wielding a sharp knife. Now, the images are repeated endlessly on both screens one into the past and the other into future, two minutes at a time, revealing secrets that no one should know. They up the ante by bringing the upstairs screen down to the cafe, facing the other monitor. A nifty trick perhaps, but what use is it? Well for one thing, maybe he can finally ask Megumi for a date? Soon his friends from the band drop by and are mesmerized by the phenomenon.
Sure enough, it’s him in his bedroom from two minutes in the past. He tests this by running back downstairs to the cafe and speaking into the monitor there. What’s really weird is he’s the one talking on the screen… but from two minutes in the future. Someone is talking to him through his computer screen from the monitor in the cafe downstairs. But everything changes when he discovers he’s not alone in his room. He rents a room upstairs in a 5-storey walk-up. He also has a crush on Megumi (Asakura Aki), the woman next door, who he’s never had the nerve to approach. Kato (Tosa Kazunari) is an ordinary young man in his twenties who runs a small cafe and is in an amateur rock band with his friends. There’s a woman in a French village who disappears in a blizzard another woman, in Taipei, who wakes up to find a whole day is missing and a guy in Tokyo who finds he can talk to himself on a video monitor… two minutes in the future.īeyond the Infinite Two Minutes ( ドロステのはてで僕ら) This week I’m looking at three new movies - from Japan, Taiwan and France - that retell their stories from different points of view. Hi, this is Daniel Garber at the Movies for and CIUT 89.5 FM.Ī story can change a lot depending on who tells it.
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