Film review: On the Road

One of the great delights of the film is its landscapes, says Hugh Lilly.

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15th September, 2012

Film review

Just as it may prove to have been impossible for Baz Luhrmann to convey visually the feeling conjured up by the breathtaking final sentence of The Great Gatsby – “So we beat on, boats against the current …” – it must have seemed equally daunting for Brazilian director Walter Salles and screenwriter José Rivera to face adapting the mellifluous freewheeling prose of Jack Kerouac’s era-defining novel On the Road into something legible to most filmgoers. Salles, who depicted a more politically inclined improvised road-trip in The Motorcycle Diaries (2004), ...

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