BETWEEN WORLDS
US, 2018, 90 minutes, Colour.
Nicolas Cage, Franka Potente, Penelope Mitchell, Garret Clayton, Hopper Penn.
Directed by Maria Pulera.
Yet another of the very many films that Nicolas Cage makes each year, often six. As with so many of them, there are quick action films, he appearing as somewhat manic.
On the one hand, this has a very complex plot. On the other hand, the drama does not move very rapidly.
Cage portrays an out of work truck driver who encounters a woman being strangled. It turns out that she has had a near death or death experience (seen during the opening credits as she drowns) and that this gives her some kind of power to help her daughter who has been involved in an accident. The daughter recovers and goes home for recuperation.
Needless to say, Cage and the woman, played by German actress, Franka Potente (Run Lola Run) become involved. The daughter seems to be jealous. However, the complication is that cage’s dead wife is somehow rather present in the daughter and he is resuming his relationship, sexual relationship with her. And she is more than a touch jealous! And this involves the daughter’s two rather hippy friends with some violent results.
It is probably fair to say that the film is not particularly engaging for an audience – who might find either the topic or the treatment (or both) have touches of the absurd.
