SUN 3 NOV
Coming Soon to
Victoria Theatre & Cinema Devonport
118 mins |
Rated
M (Violence & content that may disturb)
Directed by Timm Kröger
Starring Olivia Ross, David Bennent, Hanns Zischler, Philippe Graber, Gottfried Breitfuss, Jan Bülow
Part of KinoFest German Film Festival 2-10 November 2024
Die Theorie Von Allem / The Universal Theory
This German Hitchcock homage takes a dusty science conference in the Swiss mountain peaks to absurd heights. Nothing is what it seems in this enigmatic black-and-white pastiche. Can quantum mechanics bring order to a chaotic universe?
Paolo Bertolin, artistic director at NZIFF wrote about the film:
"A pure cinephile delight presented in sumptuous black and white, Timm Kröger’s The Universal Theory is a superb take on multiverse storytelling. (...) Richly referencing classic cinema, from Hitchcock to Fassbinder, Welles to Lynch, film noir to German mountain films of the 1920s, French New Wave to Italian giallo, Timm Kröger creates a bewildering puzzle that is fully original, suspenseful and visually mesmerizing. But at the heart of what could have been a mere cinematic pastiche is a sublime poetic vision manifesting itself in what ultimately is a heart-wrenching love story."
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Part of KinoFest German Film Festival 2-10 November 2024
Die Theorie Von Allem / The Universal Theory
This German Hitchcock homage takes a dusty science conference in the Swiss mountain peaks to absurd heights. Nothing is what it seems in this enigmatic black-and-white pastiche. Can quantum mechanics bring order to a chaotic universe?
Paolo Bertolin, artistic director at NZIFF wrote about the film:
"A pure cinephile delight presented in sumptuous black and white, Timm Kröger’s The Universal Theory is a superb take on multiverse storytelling. (...) Richly referencing classic cinema, from Hitchcock to Fassbinder, Welles to Lynch, film noir to German mountain films of the 1920s, French New Wave to Italian giallo, Timm Kröger creates a bewildering puzzle that is fully original, suspenseful and visually mesmerizing. But at the heart of what could have been a mere cinematic pastiche is a sublime poetic vision manifesting itself in what ultimately is a heart-wrenching love story."