Probably no film project should be called "lucky" in April of 2020, but a couple come close —like Charlie Buhler's Before the Fire, a drama set in a flu-struck world bearing at least a couple of similarities to the one we're suddenly living in.
The story of an Angeleno who gets stuck waiting out a pandemic in the rural community she fled years ago, it starts off with moments provoking a nearly uncanny sense of recognition.
Rather than build to the kind of cathartic scares so many of us are currently seeking in Contagion and other thrillers, though, this drama gradually leans more toward woman-in-peril vibes in a setting whose ingredients start to feel less timely than generic.
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