''Trauma is a Time Machine'' is a 2018 American drama film directed by Angelica Zollo, starring
Augie Duke
Augie Duke (born 1986) is an American actress who is known for starring roles in ''Bad Kids Go to Hell'' and the television series '' Chemistry''. and
Gabe Fazio.
Cast
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Augie Duke
Augie Duke (born 1986) is an American actress who is known for starring roles in ''Bad Kids Go to Hell'' and the television series '' Chemistry''. as Helen
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Gabe Fazio as Toby
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Elizabeth A. Davis
Elizabeth Anne Davis known professionally as Elizabeth A. Davis, is an American actress and musician known for her work in the musical '' Once'', for which she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musi ...
as Georgia
* Robyn Peterson as Woman at the Bus Stop
* Ella Loudon as Joan
* Max Duane as Man One
* Joseph Reiver as Man Two
* Karl Scully as Karl
Release
The film was released on 20 September 2019.
Reception
Katie Walsh of the ''
Los Angeles Times
The ''Los Angeles Times'' (abbreviated as ''LA Times'') is a daily newspaper that started publishing in Los Angeles in 1881. Based in the LA-adjacent suburb of El Segundo since 2018, it is the sixth-largest newspaper by circulation in the Un ...
'' wrote that while the narrative was lacking in "structural integrity", Zollo and Duke "create a courageously personal, experimental piece, tapping into a raw emotional state not often rendered on screen with such depth and intelligence."
Frank Scheck
Frank Scheck is an American film critic. He is best known for his reviews in the ''New York Post'' and ''The Hollywood Reporter''. He formerly edited ''STAGES Magazine'' and worked as a theater critic for the ''Christian Science Monitor
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of ''
The Hollywood Reporter
''The Hollywood Reporter'' (''THR'') is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Cinema of the United States, Hollywood film industry, film, television, and entertainment industries. It was founded in 1930 as a daily trade pap ...
'' wrote that while Duke "delivers a shattering, highly physical performance that fully conveys her character’s complex mixture of anger, depression and disorientation", she is "unable to overcome the film’s inertia and repetitiveness, its vague proceedings stretched out interminably to reach a feature-length running time".
References
External links
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* {{rotten-tomatoes, trauma_is_a_time_machine, Trauma is a Time Machine
American drama films
2018 drama films
2018 films