In a future world where humans have given up their dreams in exchange for immortality, Miss Shu has found one creature who still has the capacity for dreaming. She plugs his mind into a projector, then suddenly must hunt him through five different dream worlds, each one taking place at a different time in the twentieth century and shot with radically different cinematic styles. Director Bi Gan’s (Kaili Blues, Long Day’s Journey into Night) third feature is a dazzling tour through twentieth-century cinema — and beyond.

“[I]t’s a tour-de-force of unbound creativity, its silky staging, enchanting performances, and playful inventiveness combining to make it one of the year’s undisputed big-screen highlights.” — Nick Schager, The Daily Beast