Palm Springs (film)

Movie
Original title	Palm Springs
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	2020
length	90 minutes
Rod
Director	Max Barbakov
script	Andy Siara
production	Chris Parker , ; Andy Samberg , ; Akiva Schaffer , ; Dylan Sellers , ; Becky Sloviter , ; Jorma Taccone
music	Matthew Compton
camera	Quyen Tran
cut	Andrew Dickler , ; Matt Friedman
occupation
	Andy Samberg: Nyles; Cristin Milioti : Sarah; JK Simmons : Roy; Peter Gallagher : Howard; Meredith Hagner : Misty; Camila Mendes : Tala; Tyler Hoechlin : Abe; Chris Pang : Trevor; Jacqueline Obradors : Pia; June Squibb : Nana Schlieffen; Tongayi Chirisa : Jerry; Dale Dickey : Darla;

Palm Springs is a romantic comedy film directed by Max Barbakow that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2020 . It is the opening film of the Fantasy Film Festival 2020 .

action

Nyles wakes up by his girlfriend Misty's side on Tala and Abe's wedding day. Misty gives a speech at the party. Then Sarah should take over. But she didn't know anything about it and got drunk all evening. Nyles suddenly jumps in and gives a moving speech, which almost saves Sarah. Nyles receives high praise for his speech. In the evening he is with Sarah and they both get closer. Sarah is a bit surprised that he is not with Misty, but he shows Sarah that Misty is cheating on him. Both drive out a bit and just want to have sex in nature when suddenly an arrow lands in Nice's back. Sarah is frightened while Nyles calls around and runs away. He is pursued by a man named Roy who shoots him with a bow and arrow but completely ignores Sarah. Nyles can hide behind a small rock, while Roy disappears into a cave, the interior of which glows. The injured Nyles also crawls into the cave until Sarah appears, who has followed him. Nyles calls out not to enter the cave and suddenly disappears herself.

Nyles wakes up next to Misty again on their wedding day, November 9th. Unsuspecting, he sits in the pool as before. But suddenly Sarah rushes at him, insults and attacks him. Nyles explains the situation that she shouldn't have followed him. They are trapped in a time warp and Nyles has tried everything possible to escape it. But Sarah does not want to admit it at first and tries to escape the loop herself. But neither suicide nor the drive back to her hometown change anything. She keeps waking up on November 9th in Palm Springs. After accepting the situation, Nyles and Sarah spend quality time together, relaxing in the pool with a family who is absent on November 9, having fun at the wedding, and putting on shows. Nyles also tells her about Roy. This is stuck with them in the time warp. One day they both had a lot of fun and drugged at the wedding. In the intoxication, Roy says he wishes the day would never end. So Nyles leads him into the cave. But when Roy learns about the time warp, he develops hatred for Nyles and takes revenge every now and then by inflicting pain, etc. a. through torture. Because the pain is still real. Since Roy is from Irvine and doesn't appear until the wedding day, they don't see each other that often. Often Roy stays away with his family. Sarah says Nyles can't run away all the time. But Nyles doesn't want to worry about it.

Nyles and Sarah get closer and closer and after a few time loops they camp in the desert and get intoxicated. They also see dinosaurs. They end the evening with sex together. The next morning Sarah wakes up again on November 9th. Abe advises her to leave the room quietly. They both slept together. So Sarah cheated on her sister with the groom on the night of November 8th to 9th. Sarah feels guilty and doesn't want to talk to Nyles about their night together. In the car she notices that they are being followed by a police car. Nyles worries. He thinks it could be Roy. Sarah accelerates, and the police car turns on the siren. She stops, gets out and runs away. Nyles should get out too. It turns out that the inspector is actually Roy. Sarah has meanwhile got into the police car and drives to Roy. But a real cop arrives and arrests them both. After an argument, Nyles also mentions that he and Sarah had often slept together in previous time loops, which he previously kept from her despite being asked. Sarah just wants to leave the loop and runs in front of a truck.

After that, Nyles doesn't see her again. He looks for her everywhere, asks his family which room they sleep in, but he doesn't find her. One day he lies in Abe's bed while Abe and his groomsmen use drugs. He notices the smell of Sarah's perfume. He knows immediately that Abe slept with Sarah and cheated on Tala. He travels to Irvine to see Roy. He's stopped chasing after Nyles since the police car and Sarah thing. He has a wonderful family and November 9th is actually a good day for a time warp. He's just dismayed to see his children no longer grow up. Roy tells him they shouldn't meet again.

The story switches to Sarah and shows what she's been doing in the meantime. She confronted Abe about their affair and both felt remorse. Sarah makes further attempts to get the time warp by studying quantum physics and talking to professors. To do this, she left the room early every morning. Ultimately, this leads to a theory that she first tests on a goat. The goat won't be there next time. Sarah goes to Nyles, who is delighted to see her again. He apologizes to her. Sarah tells him about her idea, but Nyles doesn't want to take any chances and prefers to stay in the time warp.

At the wedding, Sarah gives a great speech for Tala and then goes to the cave with explosives. Nyles gets drunk alone in a bar before deciding to go with Sarah. He does everything to be there in time and can catch up with Sarah. He would rather die with her than be left alone. Sarah returns his feelings. When they are in the cave, they both kiss before she pulls the trigger. Next, Sarah and Nyles are in the pool with the family that isn't there. But they are just coming back and are amazed at the strangers in the pool.

During the credits it is revealed that Roy received a message from Sarah about how to get out of the time warp. He attends the wedding and wants to ask Nyles about it. But this does not recognize him, which is how Roy realizes that it worked.

production

For Max Barbakow , Palm Springs is his debut feature film as a director. Previously active in short films, his 2016 film The Duke: Based on the Memoir 'I'm The Duke' by JP Duke received critical acclaim. Andy Siara wrote the script . This follows the principle of a seemingly never-ending time loop in which the protagonists are stuck, and especially through Groundhog Day by Harold Ramis in 1993 became known.

Andy Samberg played Nyles, Cristin Milioti played Sarah. Her younger sister Tala, the bride, is played by Camila Mendes .

The shooting did not take place in Palm Springs , but on 21 days of shooting from April 2019 in Santa Clarita , Palmdale and other locations in Southern California . Quyen Tran acted as camerawoman .

The score was composed by Cornbread Compton . At the start of the film, three pieces of music from the film were released as a download in Extended Play .

The film was first shown on January 26, 2020 at the Sundance Film Festival . It has been showing in drive-in format in selected cinemas in the USA since July 10, 2020 and is available as video-on-demand via Hulu .

reception

Reviews

So far, the film has won over 93 percent of all Rotten Tomatoes critics and received an average rating of 8 out of a possible 10 points.

David Ehrlich of IndieWire writes that first of all, Andy Siara's script, which is full of irreverent humor, is delightful when it takes all the fun things Nyles can do to enjoy himself in a world where he doesn't die. However, Sarah's entry into this time loop changes everything if it is introduced as a new variable. At the same time, Palm Springs is also touching and astute.

The film critic Antje Wessels thinks that although everything is actually as we know it from films with a time loop theme, Siara sets her own accents so purposefully that his film is one of the best of the genre: “Sarah in particular comes to terms with it in the course of the film the situation like Nyles for ages, but how both try again and again to implement new ideas for an escape from the time loop, never to give up completely and to face the whole situation with logic (!), anchors even such a bizarre scenario as a time loop believable in reality. "Even if both of them still displayed a really dry sense of humor, this finally makes one as a viewer laugh tears again:" Palm Springs is one of the funniest films of recent years. "