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'The chronicle of the life and great love of Otto Bloom, an extraordinary man who experiences time in reverse – passing backwards through the years while remembering the future.' (Source: Screen Australia website)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Making up for Lost TimeCraig Mathieson,
2016single work review — Appears in:
The Sunday Age,17 July2016;(p. 6) — Review of
The Death and Life of Otto BloomCris Jones,
2016single work film/TV 'In The Death and Life of Otto Bloom, the inventive Australian feature that opens the 65th Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), the movie's enigmatic protagonist, Xavier Samuel's Otto Bloom, reveals to the world he is experiencing time in reverse. Our unknown future is the past he already knows, but he bears no memory of what's already occurred. ...'
Making up for Lost TimeCraig Mathieson,
2016single work review — Appears in:
The Sunday Age,17 July2016;(p. 6) — Review of
The Death and Life of Otto BloomCris Jones,
2016single work film/TV 'In The Death and Life of Otto Bloom, the inventive Australian feature that opens the 65th Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), the movie's enigmatic protagonist, Xavier Samuel's Otto Bloom, reveals to the world he is experiencing time in reverse. Our unknown future is the past he already knows, but he bears no memory of what's already occurred. ...'
