Timothée Chalamet builds a floating city on a mined-out paradise. What could go wrong?
Todd Keane, and his two best friends from the University of Illinois, travel through the tech boom of Silicon Valley to the phosphate-mined Polynesian island of Makatea.
Acting
Chalamet doing 'earnest tech messiah' is somehow perfect
Production
Floating city practical builds hit different
Cinematography
Polynesian paradise vs. sterile SV offices
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Douglas Coupland's novel, the same mind who coined 'Generation X' — so yes, it's about your existential dread.
Makatea was actually mined for phosphate until 1966; the film uses a real ecological wound as its sandbox.
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