Road to Nowhere
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  • Summary: There's a murky tenuous balance between reality and fiction; particularly when it involves a beautiful young woman, murder, a powerful politico, a missing fortune and suicide. A passionate filmmaker, creating a film based upon a true crime, casts an unknown mysterious young woman bearing a disturbing resemblance to the femme fatale in the story. He finds himself unsuspectingly drawn into a complex web of haunting intrigue, obsessed with the woman, the crime, her possibly notorious past and the disturbing complexity between art and truth. From the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina to Verona, Rome and London, new truths are revealed and clues to other crimes and passions, darker and even more complex are uncovered. (Monterey Media Inc.)
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 17
  3. Negative: 1 out of 17
  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    Jun 16, 2011
    100
    In its masterful use of evocative imagery and music, Road to Nowhere is flawless.
  2. Variety
    Reviewed by: F. X. Feeney
    Apr 26, 2011
    80
    Monte Hellman's first feature film in 21 years is one of his finest and deepest, a twin peak to his 1971 masterpiece, "Two Lane Blacktop."
  3. Movieline
    Reviewed by: Michelle Orange
    Jun 11, 2011
    60
    Despite its tai chi pace and genre-friendly characters, it's almost impossible to tell what's happening in the intriguing, intractable Road to Nowhere.
  4. The New Yorker
    Reviewed by: Anthony Lane
    Jun 6, 2011
    30
    Road to Nowhere is a dead end. Most of the performances are carved from balsa wood. [13 & 20 June 2011, p. 129]
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  1. cptplasma
    10
    Monte Hellman proves with Road to Nowhere that he is the Shaolin master
    of directing. His Kung Fu is indeed strong and apparently getting
    stro    nger every day. When Road to Nowhere was awarded the Special Golden
    Lion at the Venice Film Festival, jury president Quentin Tarantino
    introduced Hellman as "both a great cinematic artist and a minimalist
    poet." This verbal sketch captures his likeness brilliantly in my
    opinion, for Hellman is truly the master of "the art of fighting
    without fighting." This refers to his self-proclaimed aesthetic that
    "directing should be invisible - don't direct - don't act" and "the
    director's job, after casting which is like 99% of the job, is to
    ferociously eliminate anything that doesn't advance the story or that
    takes the audience out of the story". This is the Tao of Monte Hellman
    and why he remains Hollywood's Invisible Man in spite of his great
    talent. True to form, Road to Nowhere is not a film that draws
    attention to itself. It is not showy or pretentious. The acting is so
    natural, realistic, and effortless that were it not for the spectacular
    HD cinematography one might think he was watching a documentary. All
    considered, though unfortunate, it is understandable that audiences
    might choose to overlook this amazing film. But I sincerely hope they
    do not. Because the viewing of it just might change the way they look
    at cinema forever. Sincerely,

    Captain Plasma    … Expand

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