Verisimilitude (USA): 2

I Origins (2014) is a sci-fi romantic drama directed and written by Mike Cahill. The indie film premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 18th. Ph.D. candidate, Ian Gray, studies the evolution of the eye with his research partner, Kenny, and lab assistant, Karen. At a Halloween party, Ian meets Sofi, a masked girl with striking hazel-speckled eyes. She leads him to a bathroom for an impromptu hook-up before disappearing. Strange coincidences, like the recurring number 11, lead Ian to a billboard where he recognizes Sofi’s eyes. Eventually they cross paths again on a train and begin a passionate ...

The film The Place Beyond the Pines (2012), directed by Derek Cianfrance and written by Cianfrance, Ben Coccio, and Darius Marder from a story by Cianfrance and Coccio follows the journey of Luke Glanton, a motorcycle stuntman with a traveling carnival. In Schenectady, he reconnects with his former lover Romina Gutierrez, who is now in a relationship with Kofi Kancam. To his ...