The Power of Your Story in ‘Traindreams’

Traindreams (2025): A Journey Through Memory, Loss, and the American Soul There are films that tell stories, and then there are films that drift like recollections—fragmented, luminous, half-remembered. Traindreams, adapted from Denis Johnson’s spare and haunting novella, belongs to the latter kind. Directed by Chloé Zhao, whose meditative gaze captures both the beauty and loneliness of…