A Beautiful Romance Just Got Weirder—And Cinephiles Are Screaming
What happens when Eternal Sunshine gets drunk with About Time, then hands the keys to Kogonada? You get A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, a melancholic, magical, maybe-genius time-loop romance starring Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell. Sony just dropped the first trailer, and it's already whispering “Oscar bait” in the industry's ear.
Mark Your Calendars: This Isn't Just a Movie—It's a Therapy Session Dressed as Awards Season Fodder
Set your internal clocks for September 19, 2025. That's when Kogonada's third feature hits theaters—perfectly slotted into that mid-September corridor where Her, Arrival, and other arthouse-sci-fi-romance hybrids have previously thrived. If you're expecting explosions or multiverse schlock, look elsewhere. This one wants to break your heart, stitch it back together, then show you the scar.
Why This Changes Everything (or at Least Refreshes the Genre)
Let's talk concept. Two strangers—Sarah and David—meet at a wedding. Classic. But then? They discover doors that let them re-live their most formative memories. And maybe, just maybe, edit them. The trailer leans into that ache of lost potential: “I want to go back to when I thought everything would work out for me…”
It's romantic sci-fi with no lasers. Time travel with no machines. It's a gamble—but the kind that pays off if the performances land. And with Robbie and Farrell—two actors who know how to crack open a character—it just might.
The budget? Modest. The emotional stakes? Titanic. This isn't Marvel money—it's melancholia money.
Kogonada's Obsession With Memory Keeps Evolving—and Getting Weirder
Kogonada isn't new to this. In After Yang, he used an android to interrogate grief. In Columbus, it was architecture and alienation. Now? Time portals in a wedding rom-com. You'd be forgiven for wondering if he's trolling us—or if he's just three steps ahead of where modern cinema is going.
This isn't just throwback—it's subversion. Time travel stories usually focus on saving the world. This one focuses on saving your self. The idea that your worst memories might still hold something beautiful feels like a quiet rebellion against Hollywood's obsession with spectacle.
Kogonada is basically whispering: “What if the action was your own emotional reckoning?”
Robbie + Farrell = Hot People With Regrets (And Range)
This casting works because both stars carry cinematic baggage. Robbie's Barbie performance taught us she can make existential dread look glamorous. Farrell, post-Banshees of Inisherin, has become Hollywood's patron saint of internalized despair.
Put them together, toss them into a time-bending love story, and you get the cinematic equivalent of re-reading old texts at 2am while In the Mood for Love plays in the background.
So… Genius or Pretentious? You Decide.
Would you walk through a door into your past, knowing you might never come back the same? A Big Bold Beautiful Journey wants you to say yes—and cry a little while doing it.
The real question is whether audiences will follow. Will mainstream viewers embrace a movie that's half sci-fi, half therapy session? Or will this get lost in the awards-season glut?
Would you watch this or burn $20? No judgment. (Okay, some judgment.)
