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27 July
Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey: a suitably epic big budget adventure with some impressive set pieces. There's a lot of bombast, but this actually works best in the smaller moments. Nolan's tricks with time help stop things being too episodic. Not flawless, but still impressive. pic.twitter.com/wllMSW69pG
— Movies In Focus (@moviesinfocus) July 26, 2026
Isn't Nolan's base text, though, repetitive and episodic ?
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 28, 2026
Which, if he needs employ 'tricks with time' to make it not seem so*, must mean either that he credits 'the mimetic fallacy' [it's only 8 mins shorter than Oppenheimer] or just knows that most won't watch it at a cinema.
* Tricks with time are, anyway, the raison d'être of his films, but, unlike the (seeming) dream within a dream within a dream that structures Inception (2010), which justifies running to 2h 28, the equivalent three worlds of Interstellar (2014) outstayed their welcome at 2h 49.
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 28, 2026
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Unless stated otherwise, all films reviewed were screened at Festival Central (Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)
