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10 December 2011 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

This ponderous piece of philosophical science fiction, the feature debut of an established documentarist, is like a film school exercise in which the student is challenged to take four familiar movie plots and weave them together into a coherent whole. The first is the shock opening – a horrendous automobile collision at night. The second is the appearance of another planet coming dangerously close to earth. The third is the discovery by space explorers of another world where we meet our doubles: this is what happens in a mysterious fashion in Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and Tarkovsky's Solaris and more explicitly in Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (aka Doppelgänger), the 1969 venture into live-action film‑making by the Thunderbirds team. The fourth is the guilty perpetrator of a (usually fatal) crime insinuating him or herself in the lives of the victim's family.

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- Philip French

1 item from 2011