Backwards Faces

4/4/2023

"Backwards Faces follows theoretical physicist, Sydney, who after waking from an underwhelming one-night stand, she wants to leave but cannot help but stay when her mysterious and aloof one night partner, Ken, claims he is from a different universe. Theoretical physics becomes a lot less theoretical when Ken tells her the solution to all life's problems exists within the alleged traversable wormhole through space and time in his bathroom. Self-loathing is taken to a new extreme when Sydney and Ken are forced to reckon with the very worst of their other selves from across the multiverse." Backwards Faces feels like a lovely stage play put to film format, which doesn't always translate well, but Chris Aresco (director) executes it perfectly. The dialog & comedic musing feels reminiscent o