A small wonder that is not as well known as it deserves and can be rescued in streaming
In amazon They continue with their policy of constantly renewing the Prime Video catalog. This means that some titles disappear and that news arrives every so often, but today I want to draw your attention to a film that you have available there and it is not a premiere but it is worth recovering: the wonderful ‘Palm Springs’, one of the best science fiction time travel movies in recent years.
World premiere at the Festival of Sundance of 2020, ‘Palm Springs’ was so well received that broke a curious record, since more than 17.5 million dollars were paid to obtain its rights. In this way they broke the previous record set precisely at 17.5 million by ‘The Birth of a Nation’ four years earlier.
That led to ‘Palm Springs’ being a film that has basically been seen streaming, since it was only released in a limited way in a handful of countries and Spain was not one of them. Here it first arrived from the hand of Movistar+ already in January 2021, later it also appeared in the Filmin catalog (it is still available there) and then it was included in the catalog of Amazon Prime Video. You also have it on FlixOlé.
Why ‘Palm Springs’ is worth watching
In its own way, ‘Palm Springs’ is a kind of successor to ‘Groundhog Day’, since it also uses a time loop as a catalyst to explore the relationship that arises between the characters played by Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti. The wonderful work of both is one of the keys to shaping a film that is very fun – although be careful, it also has its touch of bitterness that feels like a fable – but that, above all, overflows with charm on all four sides .
This is also helped by the presence in a secondary but vital role in the history of J. K. Simmonsthe third leg of a film that, despite everything, has its main bastion in the script of Andy Siara. There are already all the elements that both its protagonists and the director Max Barbakow They know how to successfully enhance, from the nihilistic and excessive attitude of their protagonists to the reflection around the time loop as a way of isolating yourself from your daily life, with all that this entails.
Obviously, the love component also has a marked presence, but here its status as a romantic comedy is one of its many faces instead of being the only thing that gives it a reason for being -If you want an absolute gem of science fiction with time travel in which love, in various forms, is essential, ‘A Matter of Time’ is what you are looking for-. All of this with an enviable freshness, since it is one thing to have good ingredients and another to know how to use them, without forgetting its adjusted duration so that we can (re)watch it at any time.
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