The Infinite Man came to Dungog Festival off the back of successful screenings at MIFF and SXSW, where it picked up accolades and praise for its inventive plot and engaging characters. It came as quite a shock, then, to have had such a violently negative reaction to Hugh Sullivan’s feature, which is both narratively and intellectually dull. It is a film that traffics in false ambition, using a now-tiresome premise and holding it up as some evidence of narrative complexity, when in fact the th...
Published on August 29, 2014 19:44