American indie guaranteed to start a discussion/argument in your film group.
A retiring college professor announces to a small group of friends that he is, in fact, 14,000 years old, doesn't die, has lived through many significant historical times and known and interacted with ancient people whose names we all know. They have trouble accepting this. As well they should.
Very playish. Woodenly acted for the most part. Although the dialogue was accurate as far as it went, I found the script maddeningly superficial. For someone who claimed to have lived with history's greatest thinkers, I wanted to hear thoughts more insightful and penetrating than what we saw here.
Still, irritating as it was, I was easily held for 90 minutes wondering where he was going with this. Nice, minor zinger at the end helped some. Ultimately, provocative.
5
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