I'm happy to announce a new feature to the ...in Korea blog. On Fridays, my friend and film maker Chris White will be sharing "foreign" film reviews. A foreign film will be defined as...
1) A film dealing with foreign (non-American) characters, settings, and stories.
2) A film about Americans in a foreign (non-American) setting.
...or
3) A film including both.
A special thanks to Chris White for taking time to share his expertise with us. Make sure to check out his latest film here, set to be released this Spring
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EL DORADO
Written & Directed by Bouli Lanners
There are some stories that start in an unfamiliar place, follow a completely unpredictable path, and land somewhere…else. Bouli Lanners’ strange and wonderful road movie, ELDORADO, is such a tale.
Here’s the story. A used car salesman drives a drug-addicted young man home…along two-lane highways in rural Belgium. But home is not as it should be. So he drives the kid back to the big city.
But road movies are rarely about destinations. They are about what happens between travelers along the way. And a whole lot happens to these offbeat travelers on their journey.
There are the predictable road movie moments: the falling asleep at the wheel near-miss, the broken down in the middle of nowhere scene. But these are handled so imaginatively, so not-cliché: a very naked man steps out of his RV to offer assistance, a local yokel has a fetish for accident scenes.
Both characters are haunted by lost relationships—and it is this point of connection that keeps them together, moving forward. Until there is nowhere left to go. And this relationship is lost, too.
ELDORADO is funny, heartbreaking, strange, and incredibly entertaining from first to last frame…a must-have addition to any home film library.
2008 \\ Color \\ 78 min.
Film Movement
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Belgium
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