Summer Time Machine Blues
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- inventive
- redemptive
- tender
Cosy, breathless, gentle comedy / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
How every film is hand-scored →The members of a sci-fi club accidentally spill Coke on the remote controller of an air-conditioner during summer and suddenly a time machine appears in their sweating bath-like clubroom.
Our read · Summer Time Machine Blues (2005) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive comedy · sci-fi · time-loop entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
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The shape of Summer Time Machine Blues
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a lighthearted Japanese time travel comedy with sci-fi club friends.”
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The reading.
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