In a future where humanity has lost the ability to dream, one solitary being secretly still can. When a curious woman discovers him, she begins to explore his inner worlds, setting off on a shape-shifting journey through a century of cinema and toward the end of time. With his mesmerising third feature, visionary director Bi Gan (Long Day’s Journey Into Night) dives deeper than ever into a world of pure dreamlike imagination.

Reviews

‘Bi Gan’s third feature is an epic in every sense of the word, taking viewers on a sprawling odyssey through cinema. Utterly spellbinding’
★★★★★ Josh Slater-Williams, Little White Lies

‘It’s a perplexing, sometimes infuriating work, but an entrancing one — a magnificent hothouse anomaly.’
★★★★★ Jonathan Romney, The FT