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.
Credits
The Royal Road Cast
Name |
Character |
Tony Kushner
He was 58, now 68 years old
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as (archive sound) |
Jenni Olson
She was 52, now 62 years old
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as (voice) |
The Royal Road Crew
Name |
Department |
Jenni Olson as Director. She was 52 (now 62) years old
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Directing |
Jenni Olson as Writer. She was 52 (now 62) years old
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Writing |