Starring: Fiona Graham, Luke Robinson

Directed by Virginia Abramovich

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When Jamie’s lover Isaac disappears, she’s desperate to know what’s happened – particularly when she keeps seeing him…

Canadian director Virginia Abramovich’s debut feature film is an intriguing blend of a love story, a science fiction tale and a meditation on isolation, loss and grief. The three elements mix well, as the audience is carefully led into the more outré parts of the story’s basis, and there’s a perfectly valid read of everything that happens which doesn’t involve the multiverse. I suspect however that SFB readers are more likely to be inclined to favour that explanation, and certainly the characters believe that this could be the case (and, without spoilers, it makes the final reveals considerably more challenging).

Fiona Graham excels as Jamie, whose raw grief is palpable at times – the moment when she screams at the ocean strikes so many chords – while Luke Robinson’s Graham veers from loveable to irritating sometimes within the same scene (and of course many of these are tinged with Jamie’s point of view). Abramovich gets the best from her two key locations – Toronto and the Azores island of Sao Miguel – and there’s some challenging underwater sequences.

Verdict: An engrossing debut – I’ll be interested to see what Abramovich does next. 8/10

Paul Simpson

Click here to read our interview with the director