2017 · drama · fantasy · time-loop
Before I Fall
Directed by Ry Russo-Young1h 38m2017
Samantha Kingston has everything. Then, everything changes. After one fateful night, she wakes up with no future at all. Trapped into reliving the same day over and over, she begins to question just how perfect her life really was.
Our read: Before I Fall (2017) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive drama · fantasy · time-loop entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / fantasy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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