In the future, people will still be people, right? Actually, there are plenty of good reasons to think otherwise, but that’s the premise of Michael Lukk Litwak’s gently paced science fiction comedy, which screened as part of SXSW 2023. It follows the titular Molli (Zosia Mamet) and Max (Aristotle Athari) over a number of years as they meet, part ways, meet again, and so on, gradually recognising that there’s something important between them but repeatedly failing to do anything about it.

It’s a cartoonish future which borrows imagery from the likes of Blade Runner and Minority Report, letting us see the future in little snippets which are neither expensive to shoot nor overly distracting, the idea being that what we might find wondrous is really just wallpaper to two self-obsessed but still likeable characters whose concerns are not so different from our own. When we first encounter...