2021 · mystery · sci-fi · thriller
Reminiscence
Directed by Lisa Joy1h 56m2021
Nicolas Bannister, a rugged and solitary veteran living in a near-future Miami flooded by rising seas, is an expert in a dangerous occupation: he offers clients the chance to relive any memory they desire. His life changes when he meets a mysterious young woman named Mae. What begins as a simple matter of lost and found becomes a passionate love affair. But when a different client's memories implicate Mae in a series of violent crimes, Bannister must delve through the dark world of the past to uncover the truth about the woman he fell for.
Our read: Reminiscence (2021) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive mystery · sci-fi · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme mystery / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
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- brisk
- extreme
- inventive
- twisty
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