OK not travel but viewing into the future, then making decisions in the present based on future knowledge.
My 7/10 is generous, I know, but that's for what the filmmakers achieved at the budget point and for a compelling idea. Historical future fiction is a weakness of mine, and whilst this isn't Azimov, it manages to get the time travel aspects "right" in-universe. Nothing annoys me more than a film which sets up rules then breaks them.
Another (very different) modest budget British time travel film which gets its timeline "right" which viewers may wish to try is "Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel".
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Sussex, England, 1938. Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, Thomasina and Martha Hanbury, two ingenious sisters, create LOLA, a miraculous machine.
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Microbudget but fun time travel movie
An interesting concept...
...if you ignore the (very outer fringe) "science". Reviews are very mixed here, I'll give it a middling one.
I didn't love, nor hate it. It's an alright film for a midweek night. It's certainly no "indie gem", but on the small(ish) screen it works well and it does stand out IF you think of it as (yet another) found footage film and is a mildly refreshing addition to found footage sci-fi.
There's a British "quaintness" to it, but the acting lets it down at points - and that's across the cast of which there are few.
For me, the biggest let down was the soundtrack - the reimagings of a parallel universe Nazi-Bowie (yeah, we get it) were clumsy and musically bad, seemingly with lyrics written by someone that heard an Editors album once but it was "too edgy" for them and the world doesn't need a pastiche of a 3rd rate Joy Division tribute act - unless that was an actual joke. Just because you have a friend that'll do your soundtrack cheap... which is odd because the use of The Kinks worked I felt and must have cost some money.
There's a moment towards the end of the film where one of the female leads has "written her own song" and that's the point I checked out mentally and my suspension of disbelief really faltered, just horrible drama-school dross.
The director might be one to keep an eye on if they stop roping in friends and hire professionals and do some reading up about science, but almost an enjoyable film.
Not bad for an obviously very low budgeted film
Odd little found footage film. These kinds of films tend to be a mixed bag, to put it mildly, but this one is a little bit inventive taking place in the past with two women who invent a mechanism that can see into the future and at first it's great fun. However, they then see a war coming and they interfere and it changes events as is usually the case when one plays around with time. While this is a little unusual and well acted, it's also extremely illogical, but you can have some fun with it if you don't take it too seriously. This is an ultra low budget film that has two very good female leads in Stefanie Martini & Emma Appleton who are both new to me. I also thought Rory Fleck Byrne. This is super short!
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