On the Eve of the Journey: The New European Road Movie: The New European Road Movie

L. Rascaroli

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-33436-9_14

On the Eve of the Journey: The New European Road Movie: The New European Road Movie

L. Rascaroli

School of Film, Music and Theatre

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Time and again, in road movies the journey is represented as liberation. In contrast, a number of French-language films of the past decade explore the theme of travel not as release of energies but as tension-between places, identities, discourses and psychological states. They do so by focusing on the eve of the journey, rather than on the journey itself. The three films that Rascaroli explores are Far (André Téchiné 2001), Since Otar Left (Julie Bertuccelli 2003) and, in a more detailed case study, Welcome (Philippe Lioret 2009). While not being strictly speaking road movies, they are all centred on questions of travel and of legal and, especially, illegal emigration, and a journey is at the core of their narrative and thematic concerns.

Original language	Undefined/Unknown
Title of host publication	European Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: Discourses, Directions and Genres
Subtitle of host publication	Discourses, Directions and Genres
Publisher	Springer International Publishing
Pages	249-262
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030334369
ISBN (Print)	9783030334369 9783030334352, 9783030334352
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33436-9_14
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2020

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