'Under The Silver Lake' starts off like the plot of any romantic drama you've ever see, and then things get very strange, very fast. Andrew Garfield stars as a man who has a romantic one-night encounter with his neighbor in the communal swimming pool at their apartments. Boy meets girl, boy falls in love, and then girl suddenly disappears without a trace.
Turning detective, Garfield's character sets out to find her, and uncovers a whole world of conspiracies which seem to go all the way up the chain to the richest and most powerful people I our society, and a secret which hides behind our entire culture. The film had its premiere at Cannes Film Festival back in May 2018, with the intention it would be released the following month, but it was pushed back to December 2018, and now again to April 19th, 2019. That suggests that some alterations to the edit may have been made based on the feedback from the screening.