The Universal Theory (Die Theorie von Allem) seen for the Imagine Fantastic Film Festival 2023 It is Hamburg, 1974, and a man named Johannes Leinert (Jan Bülow) is a guest on a talk show. He is a failed physicist who never attained his doctorate, and now the author of a book called The Theory of…
Genre is often just a way to frame and to storify psychological experience, and this is certainly the case with Before I’m Dead. The feature may assume an increasingly mind-melting range of genre elements – space invasion, doppelgängers, time paradoxes, a looping trap (expressly compared to Harold Ramis’ Groundhog Day, 1993); and it may feature a…