The Royal Road

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Date: January 01, 2015 to December 31, 2015
Dates Note: 2015
Country of Origin: United States
Place of Origin: United States
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Color: Color
Silent: No
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Documentary Voices
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A cinematic essay in defense of remembering, The Royal Road offers up a primer on Junipero Serra’s Spanish colonization of California and the Mexican–American War, alongside intimate reflections on nostalgia, the pursuit of unavailable women, butch identity, and Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo—all against a contemplative backdrop of 16mm urban California landscapes, featuring a voiceover cameo by Tony Kushner. Jenni Olson’s bold, innovative film combines rigorous historical research with lyrically written personal monologue and relates these seemingly disparate stories from an intimate, colloquial perspective to tell a one-of-a-kind California tale.

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