Redux Redux (5 Stars)

This is the 16th film in the Stuttgart Nights Festival.

Yes, I missed a few.

Revenge can become an obsession. It's never enough, as proved by the case of Irene Kelly. Her daughter was murdered as a child. She hunted and killed the murderer, but that wasn't enough for her. She acquired a machine to travel through the multiverse. In every universe she kills the murderer again. It's usually a simple in-out job. She enters the universe, checks out the murderer's home, then visits his place of work, then kills him on the way home. Then she continues to the next universe. Sometimes there are small variations in the schedule, but it's become a routine.

Irene's machine isn't a time machine. Time is passing. The man is a serial killer, and her daughter was the fourth victim. She checks his souvenirs on each visit to see how many girls he's killed so far. When the film starts it's 12, so her revenge crusade is also saving girls. She says she'll stop hunting him when she finds a universe in which her daughter is still alive, but after visiting hundreds of universes it's always the same.

Multiverses are in fashion. The parallel universes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and "Everything Everywhere All At Once" are drastically different to one another, whereas the universes in "Redux Redux" only have subtle differences.