‘The great trip of your life’ insists on the romantic dream, even when it does not convince

If there is one thing that cinema allows us, it is to make us dream of eyes open. The Great Travel of Your Lifefrom Kogonada (After Yang), try just that: transport us to a narrative in which magic doors open and memories, fantasies and desires intertwine, putting Colin Farrell (Penguin) and Margot Robbie (Barbie) Like two strangers, who are in a wedding and embark on a trip for the most striking moments of their lives. It is a proposal that refers to the lyricism of Wong Kar-Wai (Skin Flower Love) and the Onymism of Michel Gondry (Eternal brightness of a mind without memories) – Cinema that resembles the feeling of infinite possibilities before adulthood cynicism reaches us.

The director maintains his trademark: symmetrical frames, accurate compositions and a color palette that refers to the visual style of WES ANDERSON (The Phoenician Scheme) and Stanley Kubrick (Eye -tuned) – Further on the two filmmakers, of course. He also returns to themes that interest him. In Columbus (2017), Kogonada exploited architecture as a reflection of human relations; in After Yang (2021), investigated mourning and technology as mediators of affection. Here, the connection between people follows the center, now filtered by time and fantasy.

Despite the charm and individual force of FARRELL and Robbie On the scene, the chemistry between them never materializes. Your dramas work in isolation; Their conflicts, although dealt with by the same theme, are not complete, and when the narrative requires that they unite, simply do not fit. The light photography and the delicate trail of Joe Hisaishi They try to fill this distance, but they cannot give their performances a convincing bond. The script hesitates between the poetic and the didactic in a melancholy that refers to Eternal brightness of a mind without memories.

Even below its possibilities, the film has value: insists on the romantic dream, offering a kind of almost musical love, even in times when the feeling is often portrayed by the harsh reality of a capitalist world, as in Materialistic loves. Given this, The Great Travel of Your Life It works as an altogether: a reminder that it is still possible to believe in love, even if it does not fully convince on the screen. At the end, Kogonada It delivers a visually charming and narrative movie, but with rare courage in the contemporary cynicism.

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• The Great Travel of Your Life

• Colin Farrell

• criticism

• Kogonada

• Margot Robbie