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The Roads Not Taken

2020 · 85 min

A disorienting, tender plunge into a fractured mind, where everyday errands blur into haunting memories and imagined lives.

Directed by
Sally Potter
Genres
Drama
Overview
The film follows 24 hours in the life of father and daughter Leo and Molly, as they weave their way around New York City, until their ordinary but stressful day takes on a hallucinatory and epic quality.

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Directed by
Sally Potter
Genres
Drama
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • memory
  • family
  • grief
  • identity
  • isolation
Places
  • big city
  • countryside
  • sea
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
  • unreliable narrator
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour2
Realism7
Romance2
Tension5
Darkness6
Complexity7
Emotional weight8

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Genres
drama
Directed by
Sally Potter
Written by
Sally Potter
Starring
Javier Bardem, Elle Fanning, Salma Hayek Pinault, Laura Linney, Branka Katić, Dimitri Andreas, Katia Mullova-Brind, Milena Tscharntke
Music
Sally Potter
Cinematography
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Runtime
85 min
Country
Sweden, United Kingdom
Languages
English

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