A fascinating and unlikely reinvention story, The Royal Road simultaneously explores cinematic spiritual channeling, the conquest and colonization of Mexico and the American Southwest, fading historical Californian urban landscapes, and the passions found in butch identity to achieve an achingly beautiful and poetic defense of remembering. Probing roads from El Camino Real, to the Boulevard of Broken Dreams, to the road right outside the front door, Olson crafts a deeply intelligent and transcending observation of the human condition that reaches for redemption in the embrace of history, nostalgia, mindfulness, and sheer beauty. If you give yourself over to it, it will crack you wide open.
Directed by Jenni Olson
woman director
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3.6 / 5
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Cast
Tony Kushner
(archive sound)
Jenni Olson
(voice)
Crew
Jenni Olson
Director
Jenni Olson
Writer
Dawn Logsdon
Editor
Sophie E. Constantinou
Director of Photography
Jenni Olson
Producer
Lora Hirschberg
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Popular Reviews
4 reviews
laurel
9.2★ · 10/08/22
celebrating international lesbian day by continuing down the jenni olson rabbit hole that i have happily fallen into. teared up within the first few minutes of this movie just because i was moved by the words that were spoken.
I FEEL SO SEEN BY THIS MOVIE!!
celebrating international lesbian day by continuing down the jenni olson rabbit hole that i have happily fallen into. teared up within the first few minutes of this movie just because i was moved by the words that were spoken.
