Paul Dunca/Paula Dunker

In My Dreams, Or In Ours

He and she, an improbable couple locking eyes in a provincial train station, become the protagonists of a great centrifugal choreography, crossing through the most genuine cinematic traditions: an urban symphony of the Romanian South, a music video with a fantastic rhythm, a B action-film, and part TikTok doomscrolling.

Reliable 30-something Rux’s plans to leave Bucharest to join her long-distance lover in LA are upended when her boss assigns her to his wife’s mayoral race and pairs her with a know-it-all colleague.