The Roads Not Taken

Name: The Roads Not Taken
Genre: Drama
Released: March 13, 2020
Duration: 85 min
Rating: 42
Cast: Aaron Joshua, Branka Katic, Debora Weston, Dimitri Andreas, Elle Fanning

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Bleecker Street Media | Release Date: March 13, 2020 | R

Starring: Aaron Joshua, Branka Katic, Debora Weston, Dimitri Andreas, Elle Fanning, Javier Bardem, Katia Mullova-Brind, Laura Linney, Milena Tscharntke, Sabina Cameron, Salma Hayek

Summary: The Roads Not Taken follows a day in the life of Leo (Javier Bardem) and his daughter, Molly (Elle Fanning) as she grapples with the challenges of her father’s chaotic mind. As they weave their way through New York City, Leo’s journey takes on a hallucinatory quality as he floats through alternate lives he could have lived, leading Molly toThe Roads Not Taken follows a day in the life of Leo (Javier Bardem) and his daughter, Molly (Elle Fanning) as she grapples with the challenges of her father’s chaotic mind. As they weave their way through New York City, Leo’s journey takes on a hallucinatory quality as he floats through alternate lives he could have lived, leading Molly to wrestle with her own path as she considers her future.… Expand

Director: Sally Potter

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 85 min

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Empire Pamela Hutchinson

Sep 8, 2020

Elle Fanning and Sally Potter triumph again. It’s not always an easy watch, but The Roads Not Taken tackles a distressing subject with care and invites us to reconsider our preconceptions. Read full review

Glenn Kenny

Mar 12, 2020

Potter delivers her vision here in a form that’s perhaps too raw, too undistilled. There’s precious little lightness negotiating with the dark. Her lack of compromise is, as always, admirable — as is her way with actors. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Sep 13, 2020

Sally Potter’s The Roads Not Taken is a sad, painful, self-conscious vignette of a film with forthright performances; it’s a chamber piece in many ways, but with bold flashback excursions that come close to causing its emotional engine to overheat. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

Feb 28, 2020

As dour in practice as it is bright-eyed in principle, Potter’s film makes an earnest but enervating attempt to erase mental boundaries. Read full review

Lee Marshall

Feb 28, 2020

Two bravura performances can’t disguise the thinness of a script that exposes just how uninteresting this ‘sliding doors’ game can be. The Roads Not Taken redeems itself, partly, through the compassion and sensitivity with which it deals with the mind-ravaging illness at its core. Read full review

Gary Goldstein

Mar 12, 2020

Despite the noble ambitions of writer-director Sally Potter (“Orlando, “The Party”), The Roads Not Taken proves a morose and baffling drama; a painful, snail’s-paced 85 minutes with little payoff. Read full review

Diego Semerene

Feb 29, 2020

The film is an unending source for the worst possible clichés and most overdone series of graphic matches in the history of film editing. Read full review

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JLuis_001

Apr 30, 2020

From what I read this film was a way for Sally Potter to deal with her grief over the loss of her brother and yet despite the personal theme, it's not a good a film.

The Roads Not Taken is clearly a personal film for the director but it's also an incredibly frustrating film because whenFrom what I read this film was a way for Sally Potter to deal with her grief over the loss of her brother and yet despite the personal theme, it's not a good a film.

The Roads Not Taken is clearly a personal film for the director but it's also an incredibly frustrating film because when enclosing the thematic in certain narrative niche, it will only manage to connect with people who evidently have seen themselves in the situations of this story and unfortunately Sally Potter is incapable of make both the story and the characters matter to you, the way I assume or think she expected her audience to do so and for that reason it becomes very difficult to maintain the interest.

For what I can process this was a therapeutic work for Sally Potter and obviously something that she needed to express and perhaps after that moving on and that's why this films belongs to her in a way that the public will not be able to absorb and because of that, it fails to be more engaging.… Expand

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