If you like 'Groundhog Day' you have to watch this science fiction movie with Cristin Millioti

Now that he steals the show in The Penguin portraying the heiress of the Falcone clan, some viewers will be surprised to discover that Cristin Millioti began her career with a small role in season 6 of The Sopranos, a series that has precisely been used as a reference to describe HBO's latest release. 

She then had recurring roles in series like The Good Wife, 30 Rock, and Nurse Jackie, played Leonardo DiCaprio's first wife in The Wolf of Wall Street and the role that gave her widespread recognition on the small screen: that of... we'll call her 'the girl with the yellow umbrella' in the last two seasons of How I Met Your Mother.

From there on, she has played several leading roles, one of them is the one we recommend today, in a film released in late 2020 directly through streaming due to the pandemic, and that if it had gone through cinemas, it would have become a small phenomenon. 

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What's 'Palm Springs' about?

The plot unfolds on the day of a wedding where Nyles (Adam Samberg) and Sarah (Cristin Milioti) are among the many guests. He is the boyfriend of one of the bridesmaids and she the sister of the bride, secondary characters in the grand celebration, but absolute protagonists of this movie about temporal loops in a romantic comedy key, where they are forced to repeat the same day over and over again. 

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This premise, which became so popular with Groundhog Day, has recently been revisited by various fictions like Happy Death Day or the Netflix series Russian Doll, is approached here in an irreverent and original way. What it proposes is that when the novelty wears off, routine, existential emptiness, and disdain for an eternal present where there are no consequences arrive. Nothing matters because everything is equal.

In addition to the perfect balance between absurd comedy, existentialism, and romance, and the exploration of themes such as the search for meaning amid the monotony of life, the film also highlights the chemistry between its two leads. Both have talent to deliver in the most comedic and crazy moments, but also in the introspective and dramatic ones. 

Although it addresses the concept of the time loop without attempting to provide scientific explanations of the phenomenon, Palm Springs works very well as a science fiction story. Also as a modern romantic comedy. A contemporary gem that is worth discovering. 

*This article has been automatically translated using artificial intelligence