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Director
James Ward Byrkit
Year
2013
Country
USA
Runtime
87 min

Also released as

  • 相干效应
  • 相干性
  • Слаженность
  • Coherence – Nichts ist Zufall
  • Coerência
  • 彗星來的那一夜

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Coherence

A dinner party the night a comet passes, and reality starts to fork. Shot in one house in five nights.

Eight friends at a dinner party lose phone signal as a comet passes overhead. There is another house up the street with the same eight people in it. Then there are more.

James Ward Byrkit made it for almost nothing over five nights, giving the actors only a daily index card of their character's situation and letting them improvise, so the confusion on screen is partly real.

The film is a controlled unfolding of a many-worlds premise in which the party keeps splitting and the versions start trying to swap themselves into the better timeline.

It is talky, low-fi and genuinely gripping, and it rewards close attention: the glow sticks and the numbered doors are a system you can solve.

The ending is one of the quietest and most disturbing in recent science-fiction horror.

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