Slipstream (2007)

SLIPSTREAM is the directorial debut by Academy Award-winning actor Anthony Hopkins. An inventive and multilayered work, featuring a sterling ensemble cast, SLIPSTREAM is an incredible journey into the combustion of a writer’s mind and the nature of the creative process.

At times, this film appears to be a conventional, concrete, and straightforward tale about a screenwriter, Felix Bonhoffer. Then it turns riotously hallucinogenic, taking off on tangents and down rabbit holes into dream worlds and streams of consciousness. As the characters from the writer’s fictional universe begin to appear in his “real” world, the audience starts questioning the limits of the human brain. We are given an opportunity to see into the vortex of a creative mind fulminating in “madness.”

With a structured elegance, overflowing with film and artistic references, Hopkins announces he is a filmmaker with an unwaveringly artistic vision.