Invention

Invention delves into actress Callie Hernandez’s relationship with her late father, a doctor turned daytime TV figure. Amongst Dr. J’s gadgets is the patent for an electromagnetic healing device: his daughter’s sole inheritance. Eager to understand her father’s eccentric world, the lightly fictionalised “Carrie” traverses a small-town America vibrating to its own strange frequencies. The film exists between fact and fiction, with Hernandez – a Best Performance-winner at Locarno 2024 – breaking the fourth wall to joke and improvise. Invention is intimate and expansive: at once a study of grief, a detective story, and a loving homage to the huckster-believer as a national archetype.

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