2024 · sci-fi · thriller · drama
Parallel
Directed by Kourosh Ahari1h 28m2024
Grief-stricken after the loss of her child, Vanessa takes refuge at a lake house only to be met with an aberration of herself from a parallel universe and realizes the multiverse gates hold the key to releasing her grief or trapping her forever.
Our read: Parallel (2024) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive sci-fi · thriller · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured sci-fi / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- intense
- twisty
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