Robert Zemeckis has reunited with his stars from “Forrest Gump” — Tom Hanks and Robin Wright — for a daring new film “Here.” Based on the acclaimed graphic novel by Richard McGuire, all of the action takes place in a single location and is captured by a fixed mounted camera. Zemeckis and Eric Roth, the Oscar-winning writer of “Forrest Gump,” handled the scripting. And cinematographer Don Burgess, who reaped an Oscar bid for “Forrest Gump,” was behind the lens.

In the trailer for “Here,” we see this location in various time periods, from far in the past when dinosaurs ruled to well into the future. But the bulk of the film is focused on the lives of a couple, Richard and Margaret, played by Hanks and Wright. Zemeckis makes use of ground-breaking technology to digitally de-age the actors. In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, the director praised the performances of his...