SummaryThe Roads Not Taken follows a day in the life of Leo (Javier Bardem) and his daughter, Molly (Elle Fanning) as she grapples with the challenges of her father’s chaotic mind. As they weave their way through New York City, Leo’s journey takes on a hallucinatory quality as he floats through alternate lives he could have lived, leading Molly to wrest... Read More
Directed By:Sally Potter
Written By:Sally Potter
The Roads Not Taken
Metascore
Mixed or Average
42
User score
Generally Unfavorable
3.5
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
11% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
68% Mixed
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
21% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Sep 8, 2020
80
Elle Fanning and Sally Potter triumph again. It’s not always an easy watch, but The Roads Not Taken tackles a distressing subject with care and invites us to reconsider our preconceptions.
Sep 13, 2020
60
Sally Potter’s The Roads Not Taken is a sad, painful, self-conscious vignette of a film with forthright performances; it’s a chamber piece in many ways, but with bold flashback excursions that come close to causing its emotional engine to overheat.
Mar 26, 2020
59
The Roads Not Taken works when Bardem and Fanning are on screen together, where Potter’s experiences caring for her sibling rise to the writing’s surface and give the narrative a punch of honesty.
Feb 28, 2020
50
Two bravura performances can’t disguise the thinness of a script that exposes just how uninteresting this ‘sliding doors’ game can be. The Roads Not Taken redeems itself, partly, through the compassion and sensitivity with which it deals with the mind-ravaging illness at its core.
May 20, 2020
38
An exercise in miserablism that, although clocking in at an ostensibly tight pace, feels never-ending.
Feb 29, 2020
0
The film is an unending source for the worst possible clichés and most overdone series of graphic matches in the history of film editing.
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Generally Unfavorable
17% Positive
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33% Mixed
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Apr 30, 2020
4
From what I read this film was a way for Sally Potter to deal with her grief over the loss of her brother and yet despite the personal theme, it's not a good a film. The Roads Not Taken is clearly a personal film for the director but it's also an incredibly frustrating film because when enclosing the thematic in certain narrative niche, it will only manage to connect with people who evidently have seen themselves in the situations of this story and unfortunately Sally Potter is incapable of make both the story and the characters matter to you, the way I assume or think she expected her audience to do so and for that reason it becomes very difficult to maintain the interest. For what I can process this was a **** work for Sally Potter and obviously something that she needed to express and perhaps after that moving on and that's why this films belongs to her in a way that the public will not be able to absorb and because of that, it fails to be more engaging.
Production Company:
- Adventure Pictures
- BBC Film
- British Film Institute (BFI)
- Chimney Pot
- Film i Väst
- Focus Features
- Glasal Films
- HanWay Films
- Head Gear Films
- Ingenious Media
- Metrol Technology
- Sverige Film
- Terraza Films, La
- Washington Square Films
Release Date:Mar 13, 2020
Duration:1 h 25 m
Rating:R
Tagline:One Man's Journey Into His Mind
Awards
Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
La Roche-sur-Yon International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
