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Invention
Directed by
Courtney Stephens
Not Rated
2025
72m
Drama
,
Biography
,
and more
5.9
95%
4.0
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In the aftermath of a conspiracy-minded father's sudden death, his daughter inherits his patent for an experimental healing device.
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Cast of Invention
Callie Hernandez
Carrie / Writer / Producer
Sahm McGlynn
Sahm
James N. Kienitz Wilkins
The Executor
John Hernandez
Self
Tony Torn
Tony
Paul Kleiman
Paul
Lucy Kaminsky
Babby
Joe Swanberg
John
Caveh Zahedi
Henri
Eleni Sikelianos
The Landlady
Philip Good
Potential Relator
Nicholas J. Facci
Funeral Home Director
Courtney Stephens
Director / Writer / Producer / Editor
Molly Hernandez
Executive Producer
Rafael Palacio Illingworth
Director Of Photography
Dounia Sichov
Editor
Sarah Davachi
Music
Twig Harper
Music
Thomas E. Dimock
Music
Cate Kennan
Music
Invention Ratings & Reviews
Drink in the Movies
Taylor Baker
The handheld cinematography creates an intimate, secretive quality, as if we're witnessing memories in the process of forming. This isn't the polished grief of Hollywood but something rawer and more recognizable.
Film Inquiry
Payton McCarty-Simas
Invention is an airily shaggy, collaborative piece of improvised, genre-fluid auto-fiction.
48 Hills
Dennis Harvey
Stephens too mixes archival and new material, to equally probing if more playful effect.
Should I See It
Michael Ward
A curious and experimental mixtape of fiction, non-fiction, and behind-the-scenes filmmaking ...
Spectrum Culture
Erik Reeds
Somewhere between Mubi-core essay film, autobiopic, and narrative filmmaking, Courtney Stephens' Invention feels fresh and groundbreaking in a way that few films can manage, while still never feeling gimmicky.
RogerEbert.com
Monica Castillo
Stephens and cinematographer Rafael Palacio Illingworth give the world of "Invention" an appropriately somber color palette and painterly compositions, sometimes from the distance of a curious observer, to create a mournful tone.
NYC Movie Guru
Avi Offer
Lethargic, unimaginative and underwhelming while ultimately less than the sum of its parts.
Auteurist Class (Substack)
Peter Sobczynski
Invention is the kind of film that some will find absolutely fascinating and others will write off as a tedious and pointless slog-I find myself siding with the former in this regard.
New York Times
Ben Kenigsberg
"Invention" is committed to finding its own wavelength.
Beyond the Cinerama Dome
Tina Kakadelis
The widespread loneliness epidemic that was born from the worldwide health pandemic is wreaking havoc on everyone, and Invention is one mesmerizing way of processing it.
AWFJ.org
Lois Alter Mark
With the line between fact and fiction so blurred these days, Invention sets the right tone for the moment. A creative mix of documentary and drama, the hybrid film definitely lives up to its name and may be the start of a fascinating new genre.
Slant Magazine
William Repass
Courtney Stephens's film blends fiction and autobiography to fascinating implications.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
A wonky work of docufiction.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
With startling views of unspoiled nature, Stephens evokes vestiges of the philosophies of Emerson and Thoreau surviving the din of modern media.
In Review Online
Chris Cassingham
Nimble and form-breaking... a piece of art brimming with its own ideas: about the opportunities that fantasy provides the form of a fiction film, and what it can undo when unleashed in a person's mind.
Filmmaker Magazine
Vadim Rizov
The opening scene establishes a light touch and fine eye for American eccentricity.
IndieWire
Josh Slater-Williams
This is an open-hearted, playful and perceptive film that does achieve its own sort of magic in seeing just how far you can test the boundaries between metafiction and explicit documentary.
Moveable Fest
Stephen Saito
"Invention" reaches beyond facts to offer something more emotionally nourishing when it takes some fiction to coax out a story that makes sense for both those behind the camera and in front.
International Cinephile Society
Ankit Jhunjhunwala
With only their wits and imagination at their disposal and not a lot of money, Stephens and Hernandez deliver a superior, singular and arresting film that will bring credit to both their careers.
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