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Text Messages from the Universe

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2019 | 62 min | Music, Documentary, Fantasy

Monday Morning Maybeearly rating

Why it’s a Monday Morning Maybe

With a box office flop and almost no lasting buzz, this one could be a tough watch. Keep your phone handy.

Based on critics, audiences, awards, box office and buzz. Details below.

Is it for you?

Who'll love it
Made for fantasy fans and the curious. If you loved Koyaanisqatsi or Stop Making Sense, start here.
The mood
Eye-opening.
The pace
Moves along nicely, at 1 hr 2 min.
What might put you off
Nothing much for most grown-ups.

A film that immerses its audience in subjective states of consciousness they might experience when they die, imagining what they can see and think and hear in a seamless but fragmentary flow of poetic images, words and music. The viewer undertakes a journey into their own interior world of dreams and projections in which time and space, and cause and effect logic, are turned on their heads. Text Messages from the Universe is inspired by The Tibetan Book of the Dead, a text which guides souls on their journey of 49 days through the 'Bardo', or intermediate state, between dying and rebirth.

How it earned its rating

  • CriticsNot counted

    Not enough reviews on record yet

  • AudiencesNot counted

    Not measured yet: not enough ratings

  • AwardsNot counted

    Awards data unavailable, so this isn't counted

  • Reach & staying powerWeak

    Streaming release that reached a small audience so far

  • Buzz & cultural impactWeak

    Not enough engagement data yet

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Cast & crew

Directed by Richard James Allen

  • Richard James AllenDancer
  • Jay BaileyDancer
  • Lily BonesDancer
  • Andrea BriodyDancer
  • Sonia CamaraDancer
  • Bonnie CurtisDancer
  • Emma DulveyDancer
  • Ryuichi FujimuraDancer
  • Jane Bones GonscakDancer
  • Brayden HarryDancer