Sunday 26 August 2018

Movement + Location (Alexis Boling, 2014)

An idiosyncratic woman living in Brooklyn is gradually revealed to have come from 400 years in the future, in search of a safer life. Her situation becomes compromised as she first encounters a wilful teenage girl from her era and then here husband too, who she thought she'd never see again.
Boling's film is a micro-budget affair without any technobabble or FX, albeit that you get the feeling that the director wouldn't know where to start if forced to explain how or why the characters got there. But, disregarding that, what we get is a quiet New York relationship drama, playing on the idea of the refugees from a bleaker future, trying to stay under the radar, equating to the situation of all lonely, guarded immigrants in an alien world.

6/10

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