Even the most time loop-exhausted among us (me, I mean me) may find their weary hearts warmed by the trailer for Omni Loop, which finds a quantum physicist named Zoya (Mary-Louise Parker) enlisting the help of Paula (The Bear’s Ayo Edebiri) in order to do something about the black hole that is growing in Zoya’s heart. Literally! A literal black hole. Yes, sure, maybe it’s a metaphor, but it’s also really there—or at least a doctor says so. But there is a slight sense of the surreal throughout this whole trailer, which makes me really hope it’s not all a dream.
Omni Loop comes from writer-director Bernardo Britto (Los Espookys), who said in a statement, “A lot of this movie came out of the fact that I just plain struggle with the concept of death. … I wanted to write a movie about death that felt life affirming, that made you want to live. It seemed too easy, as I had done in the past, to hide behind some existential snark.”
No existential snark here—but plenty of Parker’s trademark dryness mixed with messy, relatable feelings (RIP Weeds, you were a great show for a while). The rest of the cast includes Hannah Pearl Utt (Ingrid Goes West), Chris Witaske (also from The Bear), and Carlos Jacott—and yes, I’m really sorry, fellow Buffy obsessives, but that IS Ken, from Buffy’s fourth-season premiere, in bed with Mary-Louise Parker. (Sorry also to Carlos Jacott, who I can never not think of as Ken.)
Get in the time loop in theaters and on digital September 20th.
