I hope audiences don’t get stuck on the nihilism in ‘Reminiscence’, says actor Cliff Curtis
The Hindu
Actor Cliff Curtis gets candid about working with Hugh Jackman again, playing a tortured character in sci-fi thriller ‘Reminiscence’, and why he chooses to work with certain directors
If you watched the trailer for Reminiscence and thought the concept was vaguely similar to Darren Aronofsky’s The Fountain (2006), you are not wrong. Cliff Curtis who stars in both films alongside Hugh Jackman confirms this. The New Zealander says over a video call with MetroPlus, “They have some esoteric elements in common, including a man going into an alternate reality for the love of a woman who is not present for him.” Reminiscence follows scientist Nick Bannister (Jackman) and his infatuation with a singer Mae (Rebecca Ferguson) who suddenly goes missing. With the help of his assistant, Watts, (Thandiwe Newton), he leverages technology, which he uses to help people recreate their memories, to find her. His desperate endeavours lead him to meet Saint Joe (Daniel Wu) and Cyrus Boothe, played by Curtis. .
A vacuum cleaner haunted by a ghost is the kind of one-liner which can draw in a festival audience looking for a little light-hearted fun to fill the time slots available between the “heavier” films which require much closer attention. A useful ghost, the debut feature of Thai filmmaker Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke being screened in the world cinema category at the 30th International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK), even appears so in the initial hour. Until, the film becomes something more, with strong undercurrents of Thailand’s contemporary political history.

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