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The Road Movie(Дорога)

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Belarus · 2017
1h 7m
Director Dmitrii Kalashnikov
Starring
Genre Documentary

A mosaic of adventures captured by the dashboard cameras of vehicles driving on Russian roads. Cars driving nonchalantly through a forest fire, a military tank at a car wash, and a car chase next to the Kremlin. Together, these dashboard videos weave together into a strong image of Russian national character.

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37

Washington Post by

There’s very little to say about The Road Movie. That’s because there’s very little to The Road Movie.

50

Village Voice by Alan Scherstuhl

The mayhem is hypnotic, scabrous, scarifying, unpredictable, astonishing, dispiriting, repetitious, clearly both amoral and immoral, and by the end, a little dull. Even over the short running time, you can feel your humanity’s diminishment.

75

The Film Stage by Jared Mobarak

While I really like how Kalashnikov doesn’t inject himself into the footage with chapter titles, narration, or government officials explaining things, it’s difficult not to wonder if a bit more guidance could have helped The Road Movie from risking reductive criticism as a glorified YouTube playlist.

80

The Hollywood Reporter by John DeFore

Suspenseful and funny, occasionally poignant and often nearly unbelievable, it captures a certain sociological flavor while remaining universally accessible.

75

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by John Semley

The effect of watching these viral videos as a "movie" feels genuinely singular – suspending the viewer somewhere between reality and documentary, between the dash-mounted long takes of Abbas Kiarostami's "10" and the combustible vehicular carnage of Michael Bay's "The Island," between cinema and something else.

80

Los Angeles Times by Robert Abele

Between the defensive driving and offensive behavior, and vice versa, The Road Movie is a gleeful rubbernecker’s large popcorn’s worth of crazy.

75

Movie Nation by Roger Moore

The Road Movie is not a narrative film. It doesn’t tell a story, even though there is comedy, tragedy, madness and romance amidst all the crashes and explosions.

70

The New York Times by Teo Bugbee

The camera offers no protection; it only provides a witness. Fortunately for audiences, it’s more pleasurable to witness anarchy than it is to experience it.

75

San Francisco Chronicle by Walter Addiego

Kalashnikov is also smart enough to keep The Road Movie down to 67 minutes, which is all he needs to create this particular vision of hell. (And, by the way, he does so without showing bloody or mangled bodies.)

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