Venice 2023: 'The Theory of Everything' is a Confusing Multiverse Tale

The multiverse subgenre of cinema is growing. There are a handful of new films every year exploring this uncharted new territory, experimenting with big ideas and mind-bending storytelling. Not every story will work, though, not every equation will produce a correct answer. Even though this film has quite a few issues with it, I still can't stop thinking about it – weeks after first seeing it at the 2023 Venice Film Festival. The Theory of Everything (originally Die Theorie von Allem in German) is a German-Austrian-Swiss co-production from a German filmmaker named Timm Kröger (also the director of The Council of Birds). Not to be confused with the Oscar winning biopic (from 2014) about Stephen Hawking also called The Theory of Everything, this German The Theory of Everything is a unique multiverse tale. It's one of the first clever attempts at mixing film noir with multiverse theory, integrating quantum mechanics thinking into a shady characters mystery plot. Most of it is rather confounding and strange, the film doesn't quite come together as coherently it should, but it's still worth mentioning as another experiment in this intellectual subgenre. // Continue Reading ›

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