11/9/2023 0 Comments Movie about comet and dinner partyAlso worth noting is the work of Hugo Armstrong, as the initially quiet brains of the group. That doesn’t mean the characters are uninteresting or unsympathetic, though, especially Emily Foxler as the closest thing the film has to a lead, playing a woman more than a little annoyed by the fact that her boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend is showing up with a douchy date. There’s an improvisational quality that comes through that works to the film’s advantage, though oddly not in that opening. That opening section does, however, establish some great performances that are helped along by Byrkit’s firm grasp on the material. The film will get vastly more interesting as it goes (despite a decidedly low tech approach to filmmaking that never looks more that a single setting drama), but once it becomes apparent that the character beats aren’t as interesting as the story beats, it makes the opening a bit more frustrating. The first thirty minutes of James Ward Byrkit’s feature film directorial debut features a lot of faux-Pinteresque dialogue and banter that should be in service of setting up the characters, but feels more like a spinning of wheels. Some are brilliant thinkers, some completely aloof (and in one case, drug addled), but they all appear friendly. Some are more accommodating towards others, while some just want to get through the night without an argument. They all have various personal and professional connections to one another. The set up is a simple one: 8 southern California types get together for a dinner party on a night when a comet is set to pass overhead. It just takes perhaps a bit too long to get to the good stuff. The twisty sci-fi and philosophy tinged mystery Coherence talks a pretty good game, and once it gets going it becomes highly entertaining and almost delightfully disorienting.
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