Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueThe chronicle of the life and great love of Otto Bloom, an extraordinary man who experiences time in reverse - passing backwards through the years only remembering the future.The chronicle of the life and great love of Otto Bloom, an extraordinary man who experiences time in reverse - passing backwards through the years only remembering the future.The chronicle of the life and great love of Otto Bloom, an extraordinary man who experiences time in reverse - passing backwards through the years only remembering the future.
- Prix
- 4 victoires et 7 nominations au total
Histoire
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesMother and daughter Rachel Ward and Matilda Brown play the same character as the older and younger versions.
- GaffesHe couldn't possibly answer questions put to him if he was moving backwards in time, as he would not yet have experienced it yet. He would only be able to answer questions not yet put to him (as the laying of cards exhibited).
- Citations
Otto Bloom: You can spend your whole life dwelling on the past, but no amount of wallowing can ever change what's set in stone. We all have regrets. We all have disappointments. Things don't always turn out the way we'd hoped. Instead, they turn out the only way they can, which is the way they were always meant to. So, don't let yesterday take up too much of today. Inhale the future and exhale the past. Let every bruise make you stronger, every tear make you braver, and every heartbreak make you wiser. Because the only moment that truly matters is this one. Right now.
- ConnexionsFeatured in The Death and Life of Otto Bloom: Behind the Scenes (2016)
Xavier Samuel (is he the only young Australian actor getting the good roles?), plays the ubiquitous title role and there is certainly a sense of mystery but also blankness from this good looking, but not especially dynamic actor. The narrative's reliance on so much explanation means that although the viewer is given opportunity to grapple with the film's construct, it spends too much of its already economic running time in the head, and not the heart. As a man who has a particularly odd and perplexing condition, Otto Bloom's life and death are pondered more than they are illustrated here.
There are some lovely sequences involving graphics and creative use of photographs and mock headlines and news bulletins, and the film does evoke an odd sense of reality and heightened reality, but at the end, I am still pondering if I have been overly conned or really challenged as a viewer. I can live with the latter but perhaps not the former. It is great to see Rachel Ward in such a substantial role on screen, and whilst it may seem as if all her scenes are just pieces to camera, her narrative link and physical presence are essential to the film's success in belief (the disbelief comes more from whether the basic conceit is as watertight as the writer/director would have us believe).
This is an original work in so many ways, but it falls short of greatness for me; in part as I was not overly moved by it; and also as I am left with those nagging quibbles about the story itself. But I applaud the clever use of the medium and the grand vision being explored.
- david-rector-85092
- 26 août 2017
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Détails
- Date de sortie
- Pays d’origine
- Sites officiels
- Langue
- Aussi connu sous le nom de
- Ο θάνατος και η ζωή τού Όττο Μπλουμ
- société de production
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Box-office
- Budget
- 1 250 000 $ AU (estimation)
- Durée1 heure 25 minutes
- Couleur
- Rapport de forme
- 2.39:1