directed by: Michael Almereyda, year: 2020
actors: Ethan Hawke, Eve Hewson

Tesla is a biographical drama from Michael Almereyda that reimagines Nikola Tesla’s life in a stylized, near-contemporary setting. Ethan Hawke portrays Tesla with intense charisma as the inventor grapples with fame, financial pressure, and his far-reaching ideas. The film blends documentary-style dialogue, surreal visuals, and fragmented storytelling to probe genius, ambition, and the cost of progress in a nontraditional, thought-provoking portrait. Through reflective voiceovers and anachronistic atmosphere, it asks how memory shapes myth and how invention interacts with power.

Ingenious Engineering, Biographical Drama, Historical Drama, Experimental, Period Piece