11/10/2023 0 Comments Movie about comet and dinner partyThere’s a lot of wine in really nice glasses and gossipy chatter, and witchy healer-type Beth (Elizabeth Gracen) may or may not be dosing everyone with an herbal Ketamine concoction. Mike (Nicholas Brendon of the “Buffy”-verse) is a washed-up TV actor who is conspicuously not drinking, at least as the evening begins. Kevin’s ex-girlfriend Laurie (Lauren Maher), seemingly viewed by all the women in the group as a trampy femme fatale, is showing up with her latest boyfriend. ![]() Various mini-dramas are playing out within the group: Em (Emily Foxler), a fragile, pretty blond dancer, has suffered a major career setback, and her relationship with Kevin (Maury Sterling of “Homeland”) is a teensy bit tense. They’re recognizable Silicon Valley or creative-class types, pleasant, cultivated and just that crucial little bit annoying. We begin in the highly naturalistic if slightly satirical vein of the dinner-party movie: A group of old friends, all somewhere between 30 and 50, are gathering somewhere in the temperate Northern California suburbs, south of San Francisco but north of Monterey. But at least we still have the incomprehensible paradoxes of quantum physics, employed to enjoyable effect in James Ward Byrkit’s wry indie thriller “Coherence.” These days, we live in a smug, postmodern bubble of assurance that all such things are understood (even if we don’t personally understand them). For most of human history, of course, that described pretty much everything: earthquakes, volcanoes, the movements of the sun and moon, the fact that you can breed a horse and a donkey but not a horse and a cow. ![]() It’s always useful to have areas of scientific knowledge, or at least scientific speculation, which few of us understand and which most people view as mystical or magical.
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