I Origins *
Dir: Mike Cahill. With: Michael Pitt, Steven
Yeun, Astrid Berges-Frisbey. 106 mins. Cert: 15
Occasionally, the
critic encounters a film that resists all analysis: one that remains trapped
inside its own autistic universe, communicating only in gibbering twitches of
incoherence. Here’s one such: a light-headed melodrama, charting the pallid
couplings of a brilliant research scientist (Michael Pitt, somewhat underqualified)
with – male fantasy klaxon – a French model whose eyes apparently offer proofs
of intelligent design (Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey). Every Gravely Emphasised Line of
Dialogue suggests writer-director Mike Cahill is reaching for profundity, but
his narrative methods – roughly 95% happenstance – are unscientific, the
emotions generated entirely sophomoric. One laugh, courtesy of Pitt’s
intellect-signifying dicky bow; the rest is arrant po-faced nonsense.
I Origins opens in selected cinemas from today.
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