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Directed by Jack Auen, Kevin Walker
With Anne Laure Sellier
Not Rated, 99 minutes
In English, French, German, and Italian with English subtitles
This outer one-hander is an excellent entrypoint into October as it mixes sci-fi, thrills, chills, and nerdy academia. While writing a monograph on historical theories of memory, Béatrice (Anne Laure Sellier), a respected academic (both in the film and in real life), becomes beguiled by the allegedly true story of the Chronovisor, an occult device said to reproduce visuals from any point in history on a TV screen. Her obsession with the mysterious machine drags her from her Upper East Side apartment through the depths of New York City's hidden libraries, to the edge of a breakthrough.
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