The read
It runs a compact 1h 5m.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes82%
Metacritic65/100
9 audience votes
Key crew
- Jenni OlsonDirector
- Jenni OlsonWriter
Cast
- Tony Kushner(archive sound)
- Jenni Olson(voice)
Stills
Themes
woman director