After this film was over, I didn't know what to make of it. I felt like the film had run over me.
It's a time-jumping cross between Groundhog Day and Midnight in Paris mixed with a drama /horror. Actually, it's the 'horror' element that I had trouble with - the scenes of young Thomason McKenzie being chased through London by faceless corpses. It has the hallmark of the excess of The End of the World.
McKenzie's from Leave No Trace and Jojo Rabbit. With a cocky Anya Taylor-Joy and a nasty Matt Smith, plus a trio of veterans in Rita Tushingham, Diana Rigg (her last film) and Terence Stamp. And Michael Ajeo, Synnove Karlsen, Elizabeth Berrington (someone should make a documentary about this most capable and hard-working lass).
The scenes where Thomasin just starts to experience the (nasty) 1960s as Anya, the trickery of the mirrors, is great, and overall it is of course very classily filmed and edited by Chung-hoon Chung (Oldboy, Me And Earl and the Dying Girl) and Paul Machliss, and the sound design is very good - Colin Nicolson production sound mixer, Julian Slater & Dan Morgan sound editors.
The nasty classmates and nice boyfriend and teacher / female cop seem a bit clichéd (Krysty Wilson-Cairns is the co-writer) and it's maybe in feeling that the film is lacking.
The shots in the credits of deserted London are quite eerie.
At times it seemed to evoke British sixties films like the L Shaped Room and Repulsion.
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