CinemaOSMovie · 2015 · 1h 5m

The Royal Road

A cinematic essay in defense of remembering.

50%(9)IMDbDocumentary

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.

Directed byJenni Olson

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 5m
Language
EN
Released
March 22, 2015
Studios
Jenni Olson Productions

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2 credited
Starring
Tony Kushner

Tony Kushner

(archive sound)

Jenni Olson

Jenni Olson

(voice)

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Directed by
Jenni Olson
Jenni Olson
Written by
Jenni Olson
Jenni Olson
Produced by
Julie Dorf
Jenni Olson
Jenni Olson

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