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In that respect, Primer this ain’t, despite the distinct narrative similarity. Someone will surely attempt to create a detailed timeline similar to the ones Primer fans have cooked up, but the ratio of speculation to hard evidence here is even more daunting.) Byrkit’s one concession to accessibility is an overly convenient book (actually, handwritten notes in a book) that attempts to ground the film’s fantastic conceit in scientific reality.
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Byrkit’s résumé includes a lot of work in the art department on Gore Verbinski’s films, plus a story credit and voice work on Rango, but there’s no trace of Hollywood in this lean, cerebral puzzler, which trusts viewers to pay close attention to offhand lines and briefly glimpsed objects to piece together what’s happening.
Shot over five nights in a single location, and almost entirely improvised, Coherence is no-budget filmmaking at its most delectably inventive. And while most of the pictures are old, the one of Amir shows him wearing a sweater he’d just bought earlier that day, standing in front of an object in that very house. The story the guys bring back has the rest of the group convinced that they somehow accidentally walked in a circle, until Mike pries open a small metal box Amir took from the porch of the other house and finds a ping-pong paddle inside, along with an envelope containing photos of the occupants of this house, each with a single-digit number written on the back in what appears to be Em’s handwriting. Hugh (Hugo Armstrong) and Amir (Alex Manugian, who devised the story with first-time writer-director James Ward Byrkit) volunteer to head over there and see if there’s a landline they can use, since nobody’s cell phone is working. Then the power goes out, seemingly everywhere in sight… with the sole exception of a brightly lit house about two blocks away.
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( Roswell, hilariously-the film invents a leading role for it that didn’t actually exist.) Two people claim the comet somehow cracked the glass on their phones, but spooky stories about previous comets and the Tunguska Event (which actually happened) are mostly laughed off.
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Em (Emily Foxler) is more concerned about the presence of Laurie (Lauren Maher), a “vixen-y” type who used to go out with Em’s boyfriend Kevin (Maury Sterling), while Beth (Elizabeth Gracen) complains about the bad feng shui related to the house’s “door to nowhere,” and actor Mike ( Buffy The Vampire Slayer’s Nicholas Brendon) handles the humiliation of not being recognized by a fan of a TV show on which he starred.
Early scenes introduce eight friends who’ve gathered for a casual dinner party, at which the comet is initially just one topic of conversation.
Saying much more than that would be criminal, as Coherence is the kind of film in which a lot of the fun derives from watching its characters struggle to make sense of seemingly impossible circumstances.
In this case, however… Well, that’s where things get tricky, because just how many people are on this particular block at this particular moment in time becomes a question that’s nearly impossible to resolve. As in “Maple Street,” the lights suddenly go out, and denizens of a suburban block slowly start to turn on each other in their fear and confusion. In Coherence, an ingenious hybrid of that episode and Shane Carruth’s Primer, the object in question is a comet, seen shedding a brilliant plume of dust and gas as it passes unusually close to Earth. One of the best-remembered episodes of the original Twilight Zone series, “The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street,” depicts a neighborhood block’s gradual descent into chaos when the power mysteriously goes out immediately after an unidentified object is seen flying overhead.
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