Speaking about Tales from the Loop, one of the most recent Amazon productions, in a series of advertisement videos, creator and screenwriter Nathaniel Halpern, together with a few of the filmmakers which directed some of its episodes (amongst them Jodie Foster), they describe a magical place – a space where the retro-future aesthetic traces the outline for the existence and interactions of a number of people. And they’re right about it. The series isn’t interesting in building a puzzle – as it might seem at first glance – but in constructing a mix of events in which most characters appear and disappear within the stories, dictated by the script’s needs. To be more precise, this handful of characters, who are continuously interacting, is the main subject of a series of events which, in spite of being seemingly unrelated, are in fact communicating with each other, even by means of the most subtle details.

Sebastian M. Ceolca

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Film critic since 2008, film lover since he was 4 years old. Former editor for the ART7 cultural platform and former film programmer for the "Horror Saturday" section of the Romanian Cinematheque. He writes film and festival reviews wherever he can and wherever he is invited to do so. He loves cats, like most humans do, he's an amateur ornithologist and he'd much rather see a good 80s horror film than an awarded hollywoodian drama.

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