Facts and incredible fiction merge in an eccentric noir about the crazy underside of America. Russian premiere as part of the contemporary programme of the Festival of Films Regained.
Invention
- Date:
- 27 Sep 2025,
19:00–20:30
- Age restrictions
- 18+
Invention
2024, Courtney Stephens
United States
72 minutes, English with Russian subtitles
Starring: Callie Hernandez, Tony Torn, Sahm McGlynn, Lucy Kaminsky
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Carrie Fernandez heads to Massachusetts to retrieve her father’s ashes and claim her inheritance. Besides debts, the parent left the young woman a patent for a mysterious invention, allegedly able to cure the most dreadful diseases. The heroine meets a bunch of his acquaintances of varying degrees of eccentricity—and discovers a tangle of conspiracy theories.
Shot form Invention, 2024
Nothing less than an up-to-the-minute report on the American state of mind—on the epidemic inability to distinguish fact from fiction
— Richard Brody, The New Yorker
Although Carrie’s father’s invention is made up, his very figure is almost identical to that of the late father of Callie Hernandez, the lead actress and co-writer of the movie. The man was a doctor who sold a variety of unscientific remedies. Around the real loss, the film’s authors build a crafty neo-noir full of black humor and anxiety, and even create a new cinematic language.
