On the road II

On the road II

• Rules of the road

  Funny, ironic and original diary film about difficult love affair between a film-maker and a friend, via shots of the only property the two women share: a second-hand station wagon – a wonderful American one with fake wood sides. Now the relationship has ended, the car – symbol of love – seems to turn up […]

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• Prince Albert – passes by

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• (Calcutta) go

  –Car moves. Camera turns. Go! One spectacular long rider filmed from a car in a hectic part of Calcutta; the traffic chaos determines the rhythm of the film. The driver of the car gets a well-earned credit at the end.

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• Here in the real world

  –When Richard Philpott starts on a film, he doesn’t want to know how it will end. His films are also travelogues with an uncertain ending. In the first, an ironic view of the United States, planes and bird’s-eye-view panoramas play an important role. The second, a ‘travel collage’, comprises shots of e.g. piers off the […]

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• Road movie

  Road movie with mood made from a moving car and comprising long ‘riders’ shot in beautifully-lit forest surroundings. The film evokes the melancholy-warm on-the-road feeling; a few texts from American literature refer to that feeling.

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• Non, je ne regrette rien

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