Conductor Lydia Tár (Cate Blanchett) has everything: awards, an incredible apartment, a supportive partner, a beautiful daughter but now she faces the challenge of life with a live recording Gustav Mahler’s monumental Fifth symphony. As her focus shifts from infatuations old and new, her life begins starts to crumble . . .

Charismatic wanderer Stanton Carlisle (played by Bradley Cooper) torches his old life and joins a carnival . . . where he learns the secrets of mentalism. Guillermo del Toro has treated us to various horror fables over the years from Pan’s Labyrinth to the fabulous The Shape of Water, but this is slight change of pace . . .

During a global pandemic (sound familiar?) that sparks sudden amnesia . . . Aris (Aris Servetalis) is enrolled in a recovery programme designed to give blank people new identities. He is given a Polaroid camera and tasked with creating & documenting fresh memories, a project that becomes complicated when he meets a fellow patient called Anna (Sofia Georgovassili).