Jared Moshé Talks Different Kind of Time Travel in Judy Greer Starrer ‘Aporia’: ‘It’s ‘Blue Valentine’ Meets ‘Primer’’
24.07.2023 - 16:49
/ variety.com
Marta Balaga 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, I moved to L.A. Everything felt so uncontrollable and yet I had to take care of my kid. I wanted to put that into a screenplay,” he explains. Despite introducing “the most powerful machine in the world,” Moshé was more interested in emotions than special effects. “My big direction to [production designer] Ariel Vida was: ‘Make it look like a fire hazard’,” he laughs. “It’s like the junk you throw away, because these aren’t rich people. I wanted it to feel like it could happen in the most unassuming building, on the most unassuming street. When they finally use it, you are not sure if it’s even going to work.” When it does, however, his grieving characters are forced to make some very difficult choices. “I like to say it’s ‘Blue Valentine’ meets ‘Primer’ or ‘Ex Machina’ meets ‘Moonlight,’” he observes. “They are outsiders. Jabir is an immigrant, Mal wanted to
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