Dream Team

If you think you’ve seen enough crime dramas that you can predict every twist, think again. This trippy investigation will have you second-guessing at every step.

Faced with a spate of coral-related killings, Interpol calls in its two sexiest agents: No St. Aubergine (Esther Garrel, Call Me by Your Name, MIFF 2017) and Chase National (Alex Zhang Hungtai aka Dirty Beaches). The pair traverse the North American west coast, soaking up tropical sun and crossing paths with everyone from a salacious scientist to fitness junkies to basketball players doing wine-tasting to a spiteful colleague who is, inexplicably, invisible. All the while, No and Chase pursue every lead they can as they try to figure out just what on Earth is going on.

You’ll find yourself pondering the very same query in this absurdist, and absurdly funny, adventure told in seven pun-titled chapters that bounces between Mexico, California and British Columbia. Crafted in deliberately chaotic fashion by L for Leisure (MIFF 2014) filmmakers Whitney Horn and Lev Kalman, this genre-destroying feature asks you to sit back and surrender to its gleefully protean, whimsical embrace.

“A film that truly and fully embraces [a] defiant spirit is an outlier … Shamelessly proud to be its own uncategorizable thing and brazenly committed to pushing the medium down very weird paths.” – The Film Stage