![]() For the first little while, we just get to learn who these people are (the first time through, it seems like the introductions last about 30 minutes, but in fact the seeds of the plot are being planted and watered by the 15-minute mark), and this is the part of Coherence to which I most strenuously object. Keeping the eight straight requires a bit of an effort, but here's the breakdown in terms of couples: Mike (Nicholas Brendon, why by virtue of his years with Buffy the Vampire Slayer is the biggest name by a considerable margin) and Lee (Lorene Scafaria, who has since established herself as a writer-director) are the hosts, and their guests are Emily (Emily Foxler) and Kevin (Maury Sterling), Beth (Elizabeth Gracen) and Hugh (Hugo Armstrong), and Amir (Alex Manugian) and Laurie (Lauren Maher), the last of whom is Kevin's ex. ![]() So here are the ingredients: eight people gather for a dinner party in suburban Los Angeles, on the night of an exceptionally weird comet passing overhead ("weird" at first means "makes people's cell phone screens spontaneously crack", but that's just the warm-up). But getting to that point takes an awful lot of patience, at least if you share my bias against the standard mode of American indie production since around the middle of the 2000s. The microbudget 2013 feature Coherence ends up being rather a rather snazzy mindfuck once the story gets going, and the story gets going fairly early on (the movie is but 89 minutes long, and thus has limited time to screw around). ![]() Lord save me from indie films with handheld cameras. A review requested by Daniel S, with thanks for contributing to the Second Quinquennial Antagony & Ecstasy ACS Fundraiser.
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