Release Date

22 Mar, 2015

Runtime

01:05: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

A cinematic essay in defense of remembering.

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.

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Actors

Tony Kushner

Jenni Olson

Crew

Jenni Olson

Jenni Olson

Dawn Logsdon

Sophie E. Constantinou

Julie Dorf

Marc Henrich

Paul Marcarelli

Jenni Olson

Tom Rielly

Lora Hirschberg