The stylized direction along with Cole's and Robbie's performances make this worthwhile, but the screenplay needed to flesh out the attraction between the two leads.

The squared-off framing and lateral tracking shots suggest a study of modern film school favorites like Wes Anderson and Bong Joon-ho. While all this might be taken to signal a facetious distance from the material, irony and cynicism are curiously absent.

It's fascinating to watch an actor like Robbie, who so consciously uses beauty as a tool to define the way her characters drift through the world.

The story itself is kind of generic. You’ve seen a lot of these themes before. But the performances outweigh that.