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Our Times (2025) dir Chava Cartas A strange sci-fi film that did not seem to know what it really wanted to be. Set in Mexico City, a married couple, both physicists, Nora (Lucero) and Hector (Benny Ilbarra), are researching time travel. They test a machine they have invented, intending a 15 minute trip into the future, but end up going from 1966 to 2025. In the modern day the film tries to explore some effects of time travel both in terms the technological changes Nora and Hector have to adapt to but also social changes. The latter particularly effect Nora who has far more freedom and is taken far more seriously than she was back in the 60s. But the style of the whole film is bit weird. It comes across like a children's or family film. It's a 12 certificate, so no s*x, no violence, no bad language. It has some banal, cheesy music and the time machine looks more old fashioned than the 1960s. But I don't think it could have seriously been aimed at children, as there are no children in it and it's attempts at technical details are a bit too complicated. Also there is a scene where Nora is talking about things she bought at a s*x shop. So I am still confused by why it was in this style. They also attempt to explain how time travel works by throwing in some terms and concepts that do or might exist, but not in a way that could actually make it all possible. As the film was not that serious then, to me, they would have been better not trying to explain something that cannot be explained with any actual science. The acting was just about OK but felt a little amateurish at times. Overall quite disappointing. 4 / 10