"We are plunged into a woozy daydream as multicoloured as a ball pit in a kids' play centre, all about love, relationships and the overwhelming importance of being open and risking emotional hurt to find the One. This involves coming to terms with your past and how you feel about your passionately remembered parents who are either dead or at any rate don't tactlessly appear on screen in their present elderly form."
"Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell play Sarah and David, two mind-blowingly attractive single professionals who meet and warily flirt at the wedding of mutual friends; when Sarah's rental car breaks down afterwards, they wind up sharing David's and go on a road trip together away from unhappy commitment-phobia and towards self-forgiveness and love. But that's not the half of it."
Kogonada shifts from cerebral essayistic films to a big, bold, primary-coloured romantic phantasmagoria that channels Chris Marker and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg for an American multiplex. The film functions as a musical without musical numbers and as a romantic comedy largely without conventional comedy. Seth Reiss provides the screenplay. The result is a likably uncynical, heart-on-sleeve wish‑fulfilment spectacle that gradually retreats from its initial self-awareness. Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell play Sarah and David, attractive single professionals who meet at a wedding, share a broken rental car and embark on a road trip toward self-forgiveness and love. Eccentric supporting characters include Kevin Kline and Phoebe Waller-Bridge as a zany rental-agency duo.
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