Josh Safdie propels a dubious table tennis champion toward compromised glory, Paul Thomas Anderson sends a washed-up revolutionary on a high-stakes mission, and Bi Gan dissolves the boundary between art and reality into a bittersweet exchange.
If all the world is a stage, then A Big Bold Beautiful Journey sensitively understands the roles we must play to uncover hidden truths, channelling Kogonada’s immense imagination through the romantic, metaphysical odyssey that two strangers undertake into each other’s memories.
