From director Kogonada and scriptwriter Seth Reiss, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey follows David (Colin Farrell) and Sarah (Margot Robbie), two strangers who, after meeting at a mutual friend’s wedding, are brought together on a surreal adventure in which they relive moments of their pasts. It’s an imaginative and poignant conceit, if uneven in its execution.

Kogonada, who’s known for the meticulous visual style seen in his previous features Columbus and After Yang, crafts sequences of staggering beauty. The film’s framing and colour palette give each memory a tactile quality, as if nostalgia itself has been made cinematic. Farrell is quietly melancholic, and Robbie’s performance warm and engaging, though the pair’s chemistry is lacking in the passion this story demands.

There are strong performances from Kevin Kline, as the enigmatic Mechanic, an underutilised Phoebe Waller-Bridge, whose sly humour is welcomed in her brief appearances, and Lily Rabe, in a heartfelt role as Sarah’s mother.

For all the film’s fascinating ideas, though, the pacing drags, and the rules of its fantastical world remain opaque – deliberately, maybe, but unsatisfyingly. A Big Bold Beautiful Journey is a reflective, imperfect, but visually stunning meditation on memory and choice.