A Big Bold Beautiful Journey 2025

It’s been said that “life is what you accomplish of it,” that “we become what we believe.” To some, this apparently seems like the agreeable of a warm, fuzzy, adorning greeting card. But, if we absolutely booty the time to appraise ourselves and our lives, we’re acceptable to acquisition that there’s added than a baby atom of accuracy in these observations. Such is the point of the latest alms from filmmaker Kogonada, who cautiously explores how this assumption is activated to our adventurous lives, abnormally for those who are distinct and who accept that they’re all thumbs and hopelessly balked area questions of adulation and relationships are concerned. The blur follows the quirky, surreal, metaphysically apprenticed adventures of David (Colin Farrell) and Sarah (Margot Robbie), who accommodated at a destination wedding. Their journey, however, absolutely begins afore they accommodated back they anniversary charter cartage from an abnormal car rental agency, one that’s added than it seems on the apparent and that’s run by a brace of blithely aberrant proprietors (Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Kevin Kline). As their acquaintance unfolds, these anarchistic affairs continue, absolute that this book has abundant added activity for it than meets the eye. And, afore long, afterwards the commemoration ends, they spontaneously commence on a alley cruise of self-discovery, one that takes them through a alternation of dreamlike, greatly adroit adventures from their past. These adroit re-creations advice to appearance them how they’ve become the individuals they are, decidedly area affair is concerned. They’re anniversary accomplished by casual through bewitched doorways to alternating realities to which they’re directed by an unusual, alternate GPS accessory amid in their rental car. These portals airing them through a alternation of whimsical, added intense, awful claimed contest that accommodate candid perspectives on their lives and alone natures – and how they needn’t be saddled with their outcomes if they accept not to be. The protagonists’ aggregate and corresponding belief are accompanying with an arrangement of affections – some painful, some alluringly amusing and all of which accommodate them with an added acquaintance of their past, present and abeyant future. As with his antecedent superb offerings “Columbus” (2017) and “After Yang” (2021), the administrator has afresh created a account that packs a lot to appraise in a single, sensitive, cautiously layered accurate package. But what sets this blur afar from those added releases is its cautiously abstruse affecting textures, sentiments that actualize a carpeting accoutrement a added ambit of animosity than apparent in those antecedent works. It’s after a agnosticism the director’s best “commercial” assignment to date, but Kogonada’s eyes of what’s “commercial” is far added absolute and allusive than what one finds in best abreast releases, decidedly in the romcom genre. There may absolutely be an basal aspect of the “boy meets girl” blueprint at assignment here, but it’s presented with far greater abyss than what is about begin in such offerings. All of this is anxiously added by a array of aggressive assembly elements, including the film’s adroit assembly design, attractive cinematography, smartly aggregate soundtrack, altogether timed banana abatement and absorbing performances (especially Robbie yet again). Admittedly, there are a few occasions back the pacing could angle some quickening. And the anecdotal is brindled with a scattering of artifice accessories that ability initially assume a little affected or alike ever peculiar, but they all assignment out in the end, advantageous admirers with added than a fair allotment of alive and acceptable “a ha!” moments. Back all is said and done, “A Big Bold Beautiful Journey” lives up to every bit of its appropriately adventurous title, authoritative for both an candid watch, as able-bodied as a abundant date night movie. Don’t let this offering’s eccentricities and innovatively aboriginal access accumulate you from adequate aggregate it has to offer. You’re acceptable to be abundantly entertained, and you ability alike apprentice a little article about yourself in the end, too.

Suspiciously, “David” (Colin Farrell) arrives at his car to acquisition it clamped and adjacently is a calmly placed advert for a car appoint company. He’s a bells to get to so turns up at this barn area he is alien to a Germanically abrupt agent (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) afore active off in a twenty year old car complete with it’s own, rather individual, anatomy of GPS. He makes it to the bridal area he encounters the ambiguous “Sarah” (Margot Robbie). She proposes alliance aural bristles minutes, so we get a clue that this affinity is activity to be a bit different. Indeed, afterwards a bit of rain and some action from their car’s accessory adviser and this brace of adamant singletons are anon car-sharing. That’s aback they activate a alternation of reminiscing adventures that alpha like a Miyazaki abstruseness with a aperture in a field, again takes the travellers through a alternation of added serious, affected and artificial scenarios that ambit from the blissful and arch to the far added profound. As they proceed, it’s bright that there is a atom developing, but what ability arise of it? There are a few scenes that ability accompany aback some adolescence memories of those afraid and afraid firsts we all went through at school, but for the butt of this affection it seems that the contest accept been apish to maximise the ball rather than arise real. She’s got a little added of the plot, but their belief arc in such a predicable, trauma/guilt-ridden, appearance and neither appearance is absolutely developed anywhere abreast abundant to get accomplished the activity that was aloof a bells amalgamation cine alone we get to act out their “getting to apperceive you” appearance instead of alert to it in a chat. Farrell is no accustomed actuality and I didn’t acquisition there to be abundant allure with a Robbie who isn’t absolutely biconcave abundant into her allotment either. Waller-Bridge is acutely actuality to accompany some array of “Rosa Klebb” appearance of humour, but her blubbery vowels added little and by the cessation I was acutely indifferent. It’s fine, but annihilation memorable to see here.