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Made ‘for the price of a used car’ as writer/director/editor/actor
Carruth puts it, Primer is a good example of how far a micro
budget but mega ambition can get you.
Abe and Aaron are white collar engineers by day but sweat
over their own inventions by night in the hopes of striking
it big. When they do, its not in the way they intended and
maybe the ‘device’ is more than they can cope
with. The low key deadpan style makes old science fiction
clichés seem fresh again and a layered and offhand
approach to dialogue and plot information obscures what's
happening rather than laying everything out like a Hollywood
no-brainer. A treat.
GRAND JURY PRIZE - Sundance Film Festival
2004
"this film imagines its viewer to be
smart, possessed of a decent attention span and game for
a challenge" Jessica Winter, Time Out
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