A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (15)

When a film comes along with a title like A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, it promises a certain level of emotional adventure. The latest film from Kogonada, director of After Yang, intends to deliver on that promise.

This fantasy-tinged romantic yarn follows Sarah (Margot Robbie) and David (Colin Farrell), two lonely, single drifters whose lives collide when they meet at a mutual friend’s wedding, and soon, through a surprising twist of fate, find themselves on a funny, fantastical, sweeping adventure together where they get to re-live important moments from their respective pasts, illuminating how they got to where they are in the present… and possibly getting a chance to alter their futures. The nature of this journey is a cosmic, spiritual odyssey; think A Christmas Carol for the dating scene.

This sweeping saga is really about reckoning with your past in order to find the possibility of love in the present. What do you have to reckon with in order to truly connect with other people? As you get older, you realise your past has everything to do with how you understand love in the present.