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Aporia (Jared Moshé)
What would your life be like if you didn’t go to work the day an accident would otherwise change everything? How much of your future might shift if you decide to simply alter your schedules to better accommodate picking up your child from school? One question seems bigger than the other, yet the second may actually impact what occurs next more. Because you can’t know for certain. And there aren’t any do-overs. Perhaps it’s better that way, to accept and move on rather than risk an even worse fate. Or is it? That’s what writer-director Jared Moshé seeks to contemplate with his grounded science fiction drama Aporia. – Jared M. (full review)
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Aporia (Jared Moshé)
What would your life be like if you didn’t go to work the day an accident would otherwise change everything? How much of your future might shift if you decide to simply alter your schedules to better accommodate picking up your child from school? One question seems bigger than the other, yet the second may actually impact what occurs next more. Because you can’t know for certain. And there aren’t any do-overs. Perhaps it’s better that way, to accept and move on rather than risk an even worse fate. Or is it? That’s what writer-director Jared Moshé seeks to contemplate with his grounded science fiction drama Aporia. – Jared M. (full review)
Where to Stream:...
- 9/15/2023
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Stars: Judy Greer, Edi Gathegi, Payman Maadi, Faithe Herman, Whitney Morgan Cox, Veda Cienfuegos | Written and Directed by Jared Moshé
Aporia is the second film I have watched in the last few weeks which has kind of tackled time travel but not been what most people would call a time travel movie. And that’s no bad thing. The first movie was the beautiful anime The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes. It was an excellent and interesting new take on time travel, and you can read my review for Nerdly here.
Aporia might feel a little bit more familiar – it has a slightly different take on The Butterfly Effect but it might just be as beautiful as the animated movie I have just mentioned.
The always reliable Judy Greer plays Sophie. A mother who since losing her husband (and father of their child) has struggled to be a good parent,...
Aporia is the second film I have watched in the last few weeks which has kind of tackled time travel but not been what most people would call a time travel movie. And that’s no bad thing. The first movie was the beautiful anime The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes. It was an excellent and interesting new take on time travel, and you can read my review for Nerdly here.
Aporia might feel a little bit more familiar – it has a slightly different take on The Butterfly Effect but it might just be as beautiful as the animated movie I have just mentioned.
The always reliable Judy Greer plays Sophie. A mother who since losing her husband (and father of their child) has struggled to be a good parent,...
- 8/11/2023
- by Alain Elliott
- Nerdly
Plot: Since losing her husband, Sophie has struggled to manage grief, a full-time job, and parenting her devastated daughter, but when a former physicist reveals a secret time-bending machine, Sophie will be faced with an impossible choice.
Review: The concept for Aporia is enough to have most people interested but add Judy Greer and you’ve got my butt in a seat opening night. I’ll always support any movie that gives Judy Greer center stage as she’s been a wonderful character actor for years. She plays grieving wife Sophie, who recently lost her husband and is left dealing with an angry daughter and a life with no meaning. But when her friend, Jabir offers her the opportunity to kill the man that drunkenly hit her husband, only with a twist: they can shoot a bullet into the past, effectively saving her husband’s life. And all of this happens within the first 20 minutes.
Review: The concept for Aporia is enough to have most people interested but add Judy Greer and you’ve got my butt in a seat opening night. I’ll always support any movie that gives Judy Greer center stage as she’s been a wonderful character actor for years. She plays grieving wife Sophie, who recently lost her husband and is left dealing with an angry daughter and a life with no meaning. But when her friend, Jabir offers her the opportunity to kill the man that drunkenly hit her husband, only with a twist: they can shoot a bullet into the past, effectively saving her husband’s life. And all of this happens within the first 20 minutes.
- 7/29/2023
- by Tyler Nichols
- JoBlo.com
What would your life be like if you didn’t go to work the day an accident would otherwise change everything? How much of your future might shift if you decide to simply alter your schedules to better accommodate picking up your child from school? One question seems bigger than the other, yet the second may actually impact what occurs next more. Because you can’t know for certain. And there aren’t any do-overs. Perhaps it’s better that way, to accept and move on rather than risk an even worse fate. Or is it?
That’s what writer-director Jared Moshé seeks to contemplate with his grounded science fiction drama Aporia. In it exists a woman named Sophie (Judy Greer) who has recently watched her life fall apart. Her husband Mal (Edi Gathegi) was the victim of a drunk-driving collision eight months prior, and the void left has all but shattered their family.
That’s what writer-director Jared Moshé seeks to contemplate with his grounded science fiction drama Aporia. In it exists a woman named Sophie (Judy Greer) who has recently watched her life fall apart. Her husband Mal (Edi Gathegi) was the victim of a drunk-driving collision eight months prior, and the void left has all but shattered their family.
- 7/28/2023
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Forget Westerns: “The Ballad of Lefty Brown” director Jared Moshé is going on a whole different journey.
In “Aporia,” which world premieres at Fantasia, Sophie (Judy Greer) is trying to keep things together after her Mal husband is killed in a drunk-driving accident. Struggling to comfort teenage daughter, she makes a shocking discovery: his friend, a former physicist, has managed to build a mysterious machine.
Edi Gathegi, Faithe Herman and Payman Maadi also star.
“I like to call it a time-traveling movie that never goes back in time,” Moshé tells Variety.
“I had this idea: What if there was a gun you could shoot into the past? I didn’t want to, say, kill baby Hitler and change the entire world, but show a character who wants to regain control of her life.”
“I started writing this when I became a father. I was getting ‘The Ballad’ off the ground,...
In “Aporia,” which world premieres at Fantasia, Sophie (Judy Greer) is trying to keep things together after her Mal husband is killed in a drunk-driving accident. Struggling to comfort teenage daughter, she makes a shocking discovery: his friend, a former physicist, has managed to build a mysterious machine.
Edi Gathegi, Faithe Herman and Payman Maadi also star.
“I like to call it a time-traveling movie that never goes back in time,” Moshé tells Variety.
“I had this idea: What if there was a gun you could shoot into the past? I didn’t want to, say, kill baby Hitler and change the entire world, but show a character who wants to regain control of her life.”
“I started writing this when I became a father. I was getting ‘The Ballad’ off the ground,...
- 7/24/2023
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Following 2015’s stellar Carrie & Lowell (and the even better live album version), Sufjan Stevens kept busy providing tracks for Call Me By Your Name, releasing side projects, a few great singles, and more, but those enduring the wait for his next album can now rest easy. It’s been announced and, as expected, it’s totally unexpected.
Titled Aporia, the 21-track “mostly instrumental” album is a collaboration with his stepfather Lowell Bram, with whom he co-founded the label Asthmatic Kitty. Described as a “new age” album—and here’s where the film angle comes in—it was partially inspired by the scores for Blade Runner, Under the Skin, Hereditary, and The Last Temptation of Christ.
“In the spirit of the New Age composers who sanded off the edges of their synths’ sawtooth waves, Aporia approximates a rich soundtrack from an imagined sci-fi epic brimming with moody, hooky, gauzy synthesizer soundscapes,...
Titled Aporia, the 21-track “mostly instrumental” album is a collaboration with his stepfather Lowell Bram, with whom he co-founded the label Asthmatic Kitty. Described as a “new age” album—and here’s where the film angle comes in—it was partially inspired by the scores for Blade Runner, Under the Skin, Hereditary, and The Last Temptation of Christ.
“In the spirit of the New Age composers who sanded off the edges of their synths’ sawtooth waves, Aporia approximates a rich soundtrack from an imagined sci-fi epic brimming with moody, hooky, gauzy synthesizer soundscapes,...
- 2/5/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Sufjan Stevens and his long-time collaborator/stepfather, Lowell Brams, unveiled a new song, “The Unlimited,” from their upcoming New Age-inspired album, Aporia, out March 27th via their label Asthmatic Kitty.
“The Unlimited” finds Stevens and Brams crafting an enthralling soundscape that keeps a serene synth at its core while still venturing into murkier, more ominous spaces. With the introduction of thumping drums halfway through, the song builds steadily to a euphoric peak before tapering into a peaceful echo.
Aporia has been in the works for a few years now, with...
“The Unlimited” finds Stevens and Brams crafting an enthralling soundscape that keeps a serene synth at its core while still venturing into murkier, more ominous spaces. With the introduction of thumping drums halfway through, the song builds steadily to a euphoric peak before tapering into a peaceful echo.
Aporia has been in the works for a few years now, with...
- 2/5/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Paramount has preemptively picked up the sci-fi spec script Aporia from Jared Moshe, who wrote the script and is attached to direct.
J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot is producing with Neda Armian.
As with many Bad Robot projects, Aporia’s logline is being kept secret. It is, however, being described as a grounded sci-fi drama with time-travel elements.
Bad Robot, which last produced the Netflix-released sci-fi thriller The Cloverfield Paradox, is prepping for the Oct. 26 release of its World War II Nazi zombie movie, Overlord, which generated plenty of buzz when footage was previewed at CinemaCon.
Moshe previously wrote and directed ...
J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot is producing with Neda Armian.
As with many Bad Robot projects, Aporia’s logline is being kept secret. It is, however, being described as a grounded sci-fi drama with time-travel elements.
Bad Robot, which last produced the Netflix-released sci-fi thriller The Cloverfield Paradox, is prepping for the Oct. 26 release of its World War II Nazi zombie movie, Overlord, which generated plenty of buzz when footage was previewed at CinemaCon.
Moshe previously wrote and directed ...
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