Synopsis
The moment a teenage girl begins to spread her wings coincides with a global health crisis. Locked indoors, she experiences life in a state of limbo. In between reveries and video chats with her friends, she follows an influencer named Patricia Coma. A device she buys from her, called a revelator, leads her to question how much free will she actually has.
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Cast
- Julia FaurePatricia Coma
- Louise LabèqueL'adolescente
- Ninon FrançoisTess
- Bonnie BananeLa femme dans la forêt
- Adilé DavidAmie réunion Zoom
- Mathilde RiuAmie réunion Zoom
- Violette GuillonAmie réunion Zoom
- Léa JoussetAmie réunion Zoom
- Laetitia CastaSharon (voice)
- Gaspard UllielScott (voice)
Recommendations
- 88
Slant Magazine
A heady rush of ideas, the film’s avant-garde mélange of live-action footage, abstract video art, and multiple kinds of animation just barely masks that it’s a rather simple story about a Zoomer’s inner struggle with both her own mortality and that of the world. - 83
The Film Stage
Bonello looks at the Zoomer state of mind, as he does for much else of importance, and has cutting, perceptive and troubling things to say. - 83
The Playlist
In an oversaturated market for pandemic-themed films, Coma is a delirious marvel of a reminder that, in the right hands, there is no such thing as an unfeasible subject. - 70
Screen Daily
Eventually, Bonello does draw things together and creates a sense of cohesion in addressing the insecurities, large and small, of a typical teenager who has endured the pandemic lockdown. - 50
IndieWire
If, when printed and sent off for posterity, a snapshot like “Coma” offers a small degree of archival value — while answering the question Bonello poses at the start — it might also arrive as a postcard from a time all-too-thankfully gone by. - 30
Variety
As difficult as it can be to tell what’s real and what’s not here, it’s even more difficult to care: “Coma” seems to have poured out of Bonello stream-of-consciousness style, and analyzing it is about as rewarding as trying to make sense of the half-remembered dream your friend won’t stop talking about.
