Film
The Royal Road
2015 · 1h 5m · Documentary
A cinematic essay in defense of remembering.
- IMDb
- 6.7
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 82%
- Metacritic
- 65
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Overview
A fascinating and unlikely reinvention story, The Royal Road simultaneously explores cinematic spiritual channeling, the conquest and colonization of Mexico and the American Southwest, fading historical Californian urban landscapes, and the passions found in butch identity to achieve an achingly beautiful and poetic defense of remembering. Probing roads from El Camino Real, to the Boulevard of Broken Dreams, to the road right outside the front door, Olson crafts a deeply intelligent and transcending observation of the human condition that reaches for redemption in the embrace of history, nostalgia, mindfulness, and sheer beauty. If you give yourself over to it, it will crack you wide open.
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Cast
Crew
- Jenni OlsonDirector · Writer · Producer
- Julie DorfProducer
- Paul MarcarelliExecutive Producer
- Sophie E. ConstantinouDirector of Photography
- Dawn LogsdonEditor
Media
Details
- Release date
- March 22, 2015
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 1h 5m
- Genres
- Documentary
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