An adaptation of Robert Heinlein’s influential 1959 time paradox story “All You Zombies—”, this maps the then-future of Heinlein’s story onto what’s now the past, yielding scrambled, distinctive versions of the 1960s,’70s and ’80s.
In a ‘guy walks into a bar’ shaggy-dog set-up, a time-patrolling secret agent (Ethan Hawke) poses as a bartender in 1970 to get a transgender ex-astronaut (Sarah Snook, in an astonishing breakout performance) to tell his/her extremely unusual life history. It’s a funny, affecting, twisted tale, which demands you pay close attention to every throwaway detail.