The Royal Road

The Royal Road (2015)

A cinematic essay in defense of remembering.

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 2015-03-22
  • User Rating: 5.4/10 from 7 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 5min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Jenni Olson Productions
  • Production Country: United States of America
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Summary

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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Directing Jenni Olson Director
Writing Jenni Olson Writer
Editing Dawn Logsdon Editor
Camera Sophie E. Constantinou Director of Photography
Production Jenni Olson Producer
Production Paul Marcarelli Executive Producer
Production Tom Rielly Associate Producer
Production Julie Dorf Producer
Production Marc Henrich Associate Producer