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A quantum physicist teams up with a grad student to escape a time loop she’s trapped in, because of the black hole growing inside her. Yes, you read that right. This is the intriguing 1st trailer for Omni Loop.
Zoya (Mary-Louise Parker) is a quantum physicist with an inescapable illness: she has a black hole growing in her chest. With only a week to live, Zoya finds herself stuck in a time loop, living the same week over and over again trying to find a way to push her life forward.
With nowhere else to turn, Zoya recruits a gifted grad student (Ayo Edebiri) to unlock the mysteries of time travel and save her life. But if they’re too late, Zoya may lose herself in the endless void, and lose sight of the life she so desperately wants to cling onto.
The “time loop” is a sci-fi cliché as old as the genre itself, but the 1st trailer for Omni Loop tries to put a new spin on the genre. While it doesn’t quite reinvent the wheel, the trailer’s unique sense of deadpan humor, existential subtext, and surprisingly tender moments create an entertaining premise about finding love in the life you had once written off.
source: Magnolia Pictures
Like other post-modern sci-fi indie films (i.e Safety Not Guaranteed), the film uses an abstract premise as an allegory towards finding fulfillment in the mundanity of life. The film’s titular obstacle of a “growing black hole” isn’t logically addressed in the trailer, but the subtext is pretty easy to read. The trailer feels attainable and unpretentious, yet nuanced and intelligent. Anchored by honest and raw performances from the two leads, Omni Loop looks to be a painfully, adorably humanistic entry into the indie sci-fi catalogue.
Directed by Bernardo Britt, Omni Loop will release theatrically on September 20, 2024. The film stars Mary-Louise Parker and Ayo Edebiri in the lead roles.
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