14 DAY TRIAL // “Beyond the Black Rainbow” has been around for a couple of years, but it's just now that it's nearing US limited release. Above is a first theatrical trailer – and it's just as beautifully weird as it sounds.
Written and directed by Panos Cosmatos, the film is heavily inspired by Stanley Kubrick films.
In fact, it's so weird that it's even hard to make out anything of the plot based on the trailer. We do understand though that some mind experiment is being conducted.
“Beyond the Black Rainbow, written and directed by Panos Cosmatos, is a Reagan-era fever dream inspired by hazy childhood memories of midnight movies and Saturday morning cartoons,” a synopsis of the film reads.
“Cosmatos brings a bold, Kubrickian vision to the screen in stunning detail in this sci-fi fable of a young woman imprisoned in an experimental laboratory and the enigmatic scientist who is her captor,” the synopsis further goes.
The film is set in a futuristic 1983, and is bound to be just as intriguing and oddly frustrating as its trailer promises.