DREAMLAND

★★★

OUT NOW / CERT 15 / 98

MINS DIRECTOR Miles Joris-peyrafitte

CAST Finn Cole, Margot Robbie, Travis Fimmel

There’s nothing in Dreamland that you haven’t seen a million times before. A mismatched pair gradually bonding while on the run from the cops was done as recently as earlier this year, with Queen & Slim. And the period setting evokes — deliberately — Bonnie & Clyde. There’s even a little E.T. in its principal hook of gentle young Eugene (Finn Cole) beguiled by entrancing, alluring stowaway Allison (Margot Robbie), a wounded bank robber who has taken refuge in his outbuildings. However, while there isn’t much in the way of surprises in Miles Joris-peyrafitte’s movie, it’s shot beautifully (kudos to DP Lyle Vincent), while Cole and Robbie (who also produced) work hard to make their unlikely entanglement motor along on an emotional level.