I have no words, nor no notes for Josef Gatti who made PHENOMENA other than your film is 50 years too late to be the ultimate head trip midnight movie. I say that as a non-recretional drug user who can only imagine what this film would have been like back in the late 60's and 70's when people went to the movies late of Friday and Saturday nights and get high on various substances and rode them where ever the films took them. I suspect that this film needs to be reformated for IMAX so that it can play around the world and blow the minds of everyone with images bigger than life.
What the film is is what happened when Gatti became intrigued by a light experiment and asked his physics teacher father how to do it. His dad showed him. This spun off as father showed his son a wide variety of other experiments that allow us to see the unseen forces that shape and connect our world. Its stuff we may have seen in science glass in school, or not, but presented in ways both visually and aurally that make it clear just how damn cool it all is.
How cool is it? I was torn watching the film on my tiny computer screen as I tried to decide whether to continue or to wait until I can see it on a big screen. I did not wait because I can look forward to when this plays at a theater near me and see it on a big screen.
As I said above, I have no notes. There is nothing I can say about the film at all other than its one of the most viscerally moving films I've ever seen. Gatti's marriage of image with music from Nils Frahm and a score from Rival Consoles is one of the best things I've seen in years, maybe ever. It's a film that makes you fall in love with science and nature.
And every thing you see is real. There are no camera tricks only science experiments.
I have nothing more to say oiher than this is one of the best films of 2026 and an absolute must see on a big screen.
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