Origami

On a flight from Canada to Tokyo, David Marceau’s timeline becomes blurred. Soon he meets a Japanese scientist who has written a book entitled “La fleche du temps”, which translates as “The Arrow of Time”. The scientist tells him he can time travel. How can he do this? Can he reverse chronology and thus alter the relationship of cause and effect? And what does all this have to do with the picture he is currently restoring? It is a portrait of the Japanese warrior Naozane Kumagai, who, having killed a young man in battle is so overcome with remorse that, according to legend, he decides to live forthwith as a Buddhist monk. “I know why you travel. Ask yourself what the portrait of the warrior is telling you.’’ tells the scientist to protagonist David in French-Canadian Patrick Demers’ suspense filled second feature. Is time reversible – and thus also the causality of cause and effect? “The physical basis of the law of cause and effect remain intact, even when reversed. Time is as flexible as a sheet of paper” he tells David and punctures a page with a pen that has become the arrow. (Internationales Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg)