Happer's Comet

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Happer's Comet

2023

1h 2m

Drama

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In a small suburban town steeped in alienation, residents escape into the night on rollerblades.

Alison Willmore

New York Magazine/Vulture

Dec 9, 2023

A dialogue-free tribute to the isolation of suburbia that manages to feel as luxurious as it does lonely.

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Ben Kenigsberg

New York Times

Jun 15, 2023

Taormina has taken the problem of having to look at the same thing every day and turned it into an aesthetic — staring at, and listening to, ordinary sights to the point where they become eerie and unfamiliar.

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William Repass

Slant Magazine

Jun 12, 2023

3/4

Whereas films like Halloween and Blue Velvet expose the violence and perversion that underlies the manicured artifice of so many suburban environs, Happer’s Comet, by means of a simple temporal displacement, gestures above all at their arbitrariness.

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Joel Copling

Spectrum Culture

Jun 20, 2023

This is less an experimental film than it is an experiential one.

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Daniel Gorman

In Review Online

Jun 17, 2023

Like a mysterious dream that begins to dissipate upon waking, Happer’s Comet feels like stumbling around and blindly reaching out in the dark, and the sweet waves of relief at finding someone still next to you. It’s a deeply beautiful piece of work.

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Douglas Davidson

Elements of Madness

Jun 27, 2022

4/5

... frequently hypnotic, lulling its audience, harmonizing with their psyche, bringing them to a place beyond traditional narratives and into a real-life dreamscape.

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Synopsis

In a small suburban town steeped in alienation, residents escape into the night on rollerblades.

Director: Tyler Taormina
Producer: Calogero Carucci, Todd Remis
Screenwriter: Tyler Taormina
Distributor: Factory 25
Production Co: Omnes Films
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 16, 2023, Limited
Runtime: 1h 2m

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