Movie

The Year Long Road

1958 · 162 min

A slow, serious drama that immerses you in village life as a communal dream slowly curdles into conflict and disillusionment.

Overview: Set in an unspecified country and an unspecified time period, the film follows a communist intelectual who, after travelling the world for many decades, decides to return and settle down to the place he grew up in, a small coastal village seemingly forgotten by time itself. With him, he brings news of the dawn of a new world on the horizon, with which he wishes to connect with through constructing a modern highway. This news is welcomed in the village, however, the construction of the road begins to bring out violent conflicts, reveals forbidden romances and ends up regressing the community even further into the darkness from which it wanted to escape.
How it feels: Dark, bleak, melancholic and tense. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About: Class, power, betrayal, trauma
Content: Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
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Tone: darkstrength 2 of 3
bleakstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: class
power
betrayal
trauma
isolation
Places: small town
countryside
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild