‘Our House’ Is A ‘Sliding Doors’-Meets-David-Lynch Mystery [Nd/Nf Review]

For all the transdimensional, out-of-body potential of cinema, there are few directors who can successfully execute otherworldly temporality.

Films that stir parallel dimensions or transgressive timelines into their otherwise straightforward plots are forced to walk the line between sci-fi and drama without acquiescing to either genre’s overwrought potentials.

If these films were to exist on a spectrum of “inventive and winning” to “deeply unsuccessful,” it would stretch all the way from “Arrival” to “The Lake House.” Japanese director Yui Kiyohara’s surreal debut “Our House,” at once inventive and plodding, falls somewhere in the middle of those two extremes.

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