2020
R
Bleecker Street Media
1 h 25 m

2020
R
Bleecker Street Media
1 h 25 m

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...

Drama

Directed By: Sally Potter

2020
R
Bleecker Street Media
1 h 25 m

2020
R
Bleecker Street Media
1 h 25 m

The Roads Not Taken

Name: The Roads Not Taken
Genre: Drama
Released: 2020-03-13
Duration: 1 min 25 s
Rating: 42
Cast: Javier Bardem, Elle Fanning, Branka Katic, Salma Hayek, Dimitri Andreas

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 19 Critic Reviews

User Score Generally Unfavorable Based on 6 User Ratings

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Directed By: Sally Potter

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Mixed or Average Based on 19 Critic Reviews

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Mixed or Average Based on 19 Critic Reviews

11% Positive
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68% Mixed
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21% Negative
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Empire

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.

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The Guardian

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.

By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW

Paste Magazine

Mar 26, 2020

The Roads Not Taken works when Bardem and Fanning are on screen together, where Potter’s experiences caring for her sibling rise to the writing’s surface and give the narrative a punch of honesty.

By Andrew Crump FULL REVIEW

Screen Daily

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.

By Lee Marshall FULL REVIEW

Variety

Mar 12, 2020

The movie is an exasperating puzzle with most of the pieces missing.

By Peter Debruge FULL REVIEW

The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

May 20, 2020

An exercise in miserablism that, although clocking in at an ostensibly tight pace, feels never-ending.

By Barry Hertz FULL REVIEW

Slant Magazine

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.

By Diego Semerene FULL REVIEW

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Generally Unfavorable Based on 6 User Ratings

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Generally Unfavorable Based on 6 User Ratings

3.5

17% Positive
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33% Mixed
2 Ratings

50% Negative
3 Ratings

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Production Company Adventure Pictures, BBC Film, British Film Institute (BFI), Chimney Pot, Film i Väst, Focus Features, Glasal Films, HanWay Films, Head Gear Films, Ingenious Media, Metrol Technology, Sverige Film, Terraza Films, La, Washington Square Films

Release Date Mar 13, 2020

Duration 1 h 25 m

Rating R

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Drama

Tagline One Man's Journey Into His Mind

Website https://www.facebook.com/TheRoadsNotTaken/

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Awards

Berlin International Film Festival

• 1 Nomination

La Roche-sur-Yon International Film Festival

• 1 Nomination

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Leo

Elle Fanning

Molly

Branka Katic

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Salma Hayek

Dolores

Dimitri Andreas

Mikael

Katia Mullova-Brind

Mel

Milena Tscharntke

Anni

Debora Weston

Dentist

Aaron Joshua

Taxi Driver

Sabina Cameron

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Rita

Catherine Levi

Clio

Ruth Keeling

Dog Owner

Olan Montgomery

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Cory Peterson

Optometrist

Waleed Akhtar

Rahim

Ray Jahan

Tazeem

Gerard Cordero

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José Boza González

Fisherman

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