In "a Big Bold Beautiful Journey" Mother Is Responsible for Men's Problems

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Kogonada's love film with Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell takes moviegoers on couple therapy. "A Big Bold Beautiful Journey" wants to be as clever as an essay by Roland Barthes, but barely makes the leap beyond the guide bookcase.

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Eight years after the poetic Columbus, one could only rejoice to meet Kogonada at the production of a dramatic comedy. With his atypical scenario, his dreamy decor and his irreproachable casting (Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie, however!), everything seemed to be gathered so that A Big Bold Beautiful Journey was precisely this: "A Beautiful Great and Audacious Voyage". Yet he did succeed in his bet only half... The film opens on the meeting of D…