A Big Bold Beautiful Journey

★★★

(MA) 139 minutes

Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell go time travelling in A Big Bold Beautiful Journey .

The film’s Korean-born American director Kogonada is calling the story “magic realism”. I guess it also fits into that highly fashionable literary category, “romantasy”. Admittedly, there’s not an alien, a dragon or a demon in sight but it does feature a series of miraculous portals – coloured doors which appear in unlikely places and lead to the past. Each one returns either Sarah or David (Robbie and Farrell) to a particular point in their lives to re-live a key experience while the other goes along for the ride. By the end of the trip, memories have been shared, insights gained and, predictably enough, love blooms although an inordinate amount of s

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