Mr. Nobody

Jaco Van Dormael

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3.50

Mr. Nobody

Synopsis

Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife and 3 children; one day, he wakes up as a mortal centenarian in the year 2092.

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Cast

Jared LetoNemo Nobody (old & adult)
Sarah PolleyAdult Elise
Diane KrugerAdult Anna
Linh-Dan PhamAdult Jean
Rhys IfansNemo's Father
Natasha LittleNemo's Mother
Toby RegboNemo age 16
Juno TempleAnna age 15
Allan CordunerDr. Feldheim
Daniel MaysYoung Journalist

Recommendations

100
Washington Post
Van Dormael has crafted a saga that, even at two-plus hours, is endlessly, enormously watchable.
83
Portland Oregonian
van Dormael’s vivid visual sense and genuine curiosity about the nature of love and life, time and death, make it well worth surrendering to his imagination for a while.
80
The Hollywood Reporter
Van Dormael's intriguing script is more than matched in his flamboyant direction of this 2-hour-plus tale, heroically edited by Matyas Veress and Susan Shipton into a fluid, generally understandable narrative.
75
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Writer-director Jaco Van Dormael (“Toto the Hero”) spins flashbacks and time-lapse photography, stunning montages, whirling, circling cameras and stunning underwater, deep space and Martian landscape photography into a film that is as intentionally opaque as it is overlong.
75
The A.V. Club
As philosophy, Mr. Nobody seems sillier than it is profound. But in a parallel reality, more movies would have this degree of insane ambition.
60
Variety
Though a lot of it is well written and directed and, quite often, funny or poignant, the individual scenes rarely become part of a larger whole.
60
The Dissolve
In the end, Mr. Nobody’s title is simply too apt.
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
An ambitious, if uneven, experimental sci-fi romance that is less a thought-provoker than a dazzling juggling act.