15 Most Visually Stunning Sci-Fi Movies

Coming from In the Mood for Love director Wong Kar-Wai and set (partially) in the eponymous year of 2046, 2046 is a visually lush romantic drama which follows the exploits of a lonely, melancholy man through a time travel adventure marked more by love and loss than the typical high-octane, high-stakes drama of more mainstream Hollywood efforts.

It’s a sobering and often sad flick, but there’s nothing understated about its vibrant and stunning presentation.

Imagining an evocative future city which owes as much to sixties psychedelia as actual technological advancements, the filmmaker’s style offers up a strangely nostalgic lost future of 2046 which perfectly fits his moving narrative of thwarted ambition and missed chances.