One Man Dies a Million Times

One Man Dies a Million Times might be slow cinema writ large -- its story told through erosion, and with all the velocity of a famine -- but the half-imagined past that it remembers is coming for us at the speed of real life.

One Man Dies a Million Times has a Tarkovskian touch and sensibility. Although it lacks the master’s effectiveness and trance, the film is a rewarding watch.

The title of director Jessica Oreck’s One Man Dies a Million Times announces dire prospects. Yet what follows delivers an encouraging, poetic narrative crediting dedicated scientists’ determination and nobility.

Mesmerizing, spellbinding and profoundly moving.