malaise

The lyrics in the teaser center around Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids and general American malaise, noting that nothing’s getting built in a country where people are too afraid to go outside.

She believes it is part of a reaction to a general sense of malaise - "everybody's so upset with the way the country's being run, the way we're being treated".

"So what's lost can potentially be regained. But because of the extent of the current malaise, it could take a long time."

But, as big moves so often do, the journey dredges up long-buried feelings of discontent and malaise between the couple.

His last film was the willfully obtuse 2022 French Polynesian political thriller “Pacifiction,” which more often oozed colonial malaise through its painterly landscapes than any narrative.