Molly (Elle Fanning) is sick of the way that people tend to dehumanize her dad (Javier Bardem), as soon as they realize that he suffers from some kind of advanced dementia. The cab drivers are nice enough, but the dentist, the eye doctor, and even Leo’s ex-wife (Laura Linney) talk to him as if he’s nothing more than his tragically premature condition. “Why does everyone always refer to dad as if he’s not here?,” Molly asks her mom. And the inevitable, exasperated reply is one of those lines that you can hear in your head before it’s even spoken: “Is he?”
That might sound like a rhetorical question, but Sally Potter’s “The Roads not Taken” doesn’t frame it like one. On the contrary, this curious and heartfelt dirge of a movie hinges on the magical thinking that Leo has actually left his body, and...
That might sound like a rhetorical question, but Sally Potter’s “The Roads not Taken” doesn’t frame it like one. On the contrary, this curious and heartfelt dirge of a movie hinges on the magical thinking that Leo has actually left his body, and...
- 2/26/2020
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
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