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‘Daniela Forever’ Review: A Lo-Fi Sci-Fi Take on Grief and Lucid Dreaming Much Too Conceptual for Its Own Good
In 'Daniela Forever,' Henry Golding plays a grieving lover who seeks solace via a pill that allows him to retreat into a dreamworld of his own making.
He goes online to watch a full set of his favorite band performing (Hidrogenesse, here also serving as the film’s composers) so he and Daniela can enjoy a concert together in the middle of Madrid. “Daniela Forever” confronts many of these questions head-on, thrusting plot and character alike into an introspective journey that won’t provide tidy answers for anyone involved. DP Jon D. Domínguez shoots Nick’s dreary “real” life in digital, in a boxy ratio that cramps the character’s every move, confining him to a kind of early-’90s visual vibe.
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