In the year 2092 one hundred eighteen year old Nemo is recounting his life story to a reporter. He is less than clear often times thinking that he is only thirty-four years of age. But his story becomes more confusing after he does focus on the fact of his current real age. He tells of his life at three primary points in his life at age nine (when his parents divorced) age sixteen and age thirty-four. The confusing aspect of the story is that he tells of alternate life paths often changing course with the flick of a decision at each of those ages. One life path has him ultimately married to Elise a depressed woman who never got over the unrequited love she had for a guy named Stefano when she was a teenager and who asked Nemo to swear that when she died he would sprinkle her ashes on Mars. A second life path has him married to Jean. Their life is one of luxury but one also of utter boredom. And a third life path has him in a torrid romance with his step-sister Anna the two who...
Review
Just caught the north American premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. This is my first IMDb comment doing it cause i saw no one else has written anything yet.
Jaco is an absolutely brilliant writerdirector. I haven't seen too many arthouse films but I was pleasantly surprised by the tone which wasn't too serious or pretentious. There were laugh out loud moments during a movie with themes concerning choice destiny and metaphysics.
I was enamoured by the love story it was feel good without being Hollywood.
The visuals were amazing. I believe that Jaco explained that he used different DP's to film the different possible lives of Mr. Nobody. There were scenes set in the year 2092 that were absolutely stunning on the big screen.
I found the soundtrack to be awesome. Any movie with "Mr. Sandman" and "Where is my mind" is alright by me.
The movie was extremely imaginative original funny and will probably have me thinking about it and my own life for days after viewing.