The comic, novelist and director of the movie has a suspicious experience in her life while living a separate reality. Now, a comic artist painter draws a comic book in which he embodies an idealist who faces many challenges in his life.
Mr. Morelli mixes live-action and animated scenes to good effect. He doesn't have time to give his characters depth, but there's pleasure in figuring out how they connect and pondering the movie's modest themes.
Zoom falls short in terms of offering a conclusive ending to its overly complicated narrative threads, but it offers emotional catharsis for its characters and viewers.
A rich film of human desire, image perception, artistic construction, creative crisis and the difficulties to accept our physical imperfections. [Full review in Spanish]
If the final work feels inevitably uneven, that's less a flaw than a feature - a testament to the visual and tonal distinctiveness of the movie's individual parts.
A convoluted comic brain-teaser that aims to delight but doesn't possess the wit needed to pull the trick off. Sporadically amusing but too often pedestrian.
The self-conscious cleverness gets slippery once it's time to deliver an ending, so for smarts, you'll have to settle for some comment on the folly (and expense) of fantasy.
