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Opening Date

18 Sep 2025

Rating

PG13 Coarse Language

Runtime

109 mins

Language

English with English & Chinese subtitles

Genre

Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Director

Kogonada

Cast

Colin Farrell, Margot Robbie, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Kevin Kline

Synopsis

What if you could open a doorway and walk through it to re-live a defining moment from your past? Sarah (Margot Robbie) and David (Colin Farrell) are single strangers who meet at a mutual friend’s wedding and soon, through a surprising twist of fate, find themselves on A Big Bold Beautiful Journey – a funny, fantastical, sweeping adventure together where they get to re-live important moments from their respective pasts, illuminating how they got to where they are in the present…and possibly getting a chance to alter their futures.

Some doors bring you to your past. Some doors lead you to your future. And some doors change everything. Sarah (Margot Robbie) and David (Colin Farrell) are single strangers who meet at a mutual friend’s wedding.

Through a surprising twist of fate, find themselves on A Big Bold Beautiful Journey – a funny, fantastical, sweeping adventure together where they get to re-live important moments from their respective pasts, illuminating how they got to where they are in the present…and possibly getting a chance to alter their futures.

Reviews

By Riin 18 Sep 2025

Beguiling, baffling, banal, albeit beautiful.

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A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, like its title, is hard to summarise. It’s even hard to watch at times, though by no means is it a bad film. In an era of sequels, IPs and big blockbuster guarantees, in comes along A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, here to take you along for a ride between two broken strangers as they revisit their past.

All the ingredients are there – an emotionally-packed story about windswept lovers on a car ride, an iconic motif, the star-studded cast with Margot Robbie and Colin Farell. Even the poster was egging audiences on that this was a different kind of film. It has this wonderfully retro font, as if unafraid to show personality. Plus, Ghibli composer Joe Hisaishi as composer? And big indie-pop darlings like Mitski and Laufey being woven into the soundtrack? And Kogonada – best known for making video essays on Kubrick, Godard and Ozu before venturing to direct his own bold, subversive work – at the helm, directing a screenplay that was sought after by everyone in Hollywood for years, how much more promising could it get?

This film has everything going for it.

A Big Bold Beautiful Journey is many things – thoughtful, mesmerising, surrealist, painful, hopeful. It strikes deep into some parental and adolescent trauma, it is not shy about making its romantic leads flawed. But it is not fun. It has moments of levity, but overall, a sombre affair.

If A Big Bold Beautiful Journey could be represented as a line, it would spike the highest at the start and peter out into a flatline for the rest of its run. It pounces on you – absurdist, contextless, hard to pigeonhole – opening with Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s sharp-tongued comedic chops and the meet-cute at a wedding, only to dip into awkward surrealism for the next hour.

It's admirable for the leads to be older characters – people who were a little more experienced, a little more broken, than your average rom-com. Sarah (Robbie) is self-sabotaging, and gripes about the fact that David (Farrell) gets to have both his parents alive who love him, and David himself is this sad sop of a guy who loves musicals and chasing after the idea of love, but grows detached once he actually gets what he wants.

A Big Bold Beautiful Journey should be everything that film fanatics and average moviegoers have been craving for, but it left a hollow note. It begins with the assumption of you caring about its characters already, and that them getting together is an inevitability. It plays like the destination has already been wrapped up, but forgot to earn that romantic journey – beguiling, baffling, banal, albeit beautiful.
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