2011 · comedy · fantasy · sci-fi
The Man from the Future
Directed by Cláudio Torres1h 46m2011
Zero is a brilliant scientist. However, 20 years ago, he was publicly humiliated when he lost Helena, the love of his life. One day, an accidental experience with one of his inventions causes him to travel back in time to 1991. Having taken the opportunity to change history, Zero returns to own time to find totally changed.
Our read: The Man from the Future (2011) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive comedy · fantasy · sci-fi entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, breathless, gentle comedy / fantasy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured.
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- gentle
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