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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like Coherence, it turns a tightly contained reunion dinner into steadily escalating unease, using fraught past relationships, ambiguous social signals and patient, nerve-tightening pacing.
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Why this pick
This shares Coherence’s intimate, low-budget ingenuity: a relationship under strain encounters a reality-bending premise that is unsettling precisely because the characters react so recognizably.
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Why this pick
Its small-scale setting and brisk, escalating logic evoke Coherence’s pleasure in watching ordinary people make increasingly consequential choices inside a precisely constructed temporal nightmare.
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Why this pick
For Coherence’s after-dark intimacy and creeping anomaly, this delivers a beautifully controlled night of escalating discovery, driven by conversation, uncertainty and an evocative low-budget atmosphere.
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Why this pick
A restrained two-hander built around an unnerving unexplained condition, it matches Coherence’s interest in shifting trust, limited information and suspense that grows from practical decisions.
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01 / THE STORY
Eight friends reunite at a dinner party when a comet passes. Kevin asks Emily if she wants to come with him on his business trip to Vietnam, and she doesn't say yes. Kevin's ex-girlfriend Laurie is also at the dinner, and she wants him back. A power outage occurs. The hosts have some glow sticks that they use for light, and they decide to use the blue glow sticks. Everyone goes outside and sees one house up the street that still has power. When they go back inside, a glass is broken, which they didn't notice before. Hugh and Amir go to the other house to ask to use their phone, and a few minutes later they come back with a box. Inside they find a ping-pong paddle and pictures of themselves, including one that was taken that night, with numbers written on the back. On a notepad, Emily writes down the numbers from the box, looking for a pattern, but they can't find one. Hugh says that at the other house he saw a dinner party set for eight people.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Em
Beth
Hugh
Amir
Kevin
Mike
Lee
Laurie
