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The Road

The story of three families' search for freedom

1982 · 2h 4m · PG Drama, Romance
Directed by Serif Gören , Yılmaz Güney

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When five Kurdish prisoners are granted one week's home leave, they find to their dismay that they face continued oppression outside of prison from their families, the culture, and the government.

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75%
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Fresh

Guney is a firebrand of his country's intellectual left. His films -- slow, ruminative, defiantly indigenous -- smolder with an ideologue's indignation and a poet's ironic compassion.

Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine
Fresh

The film's poetry, its combination of sound and image especially, has an unconscious innocence no longer available to most European and American narratives.

Chris Petit, Time Out
Rotten

A film whose political and ethnic concerns are likely to be equated -- wrongly -- with cinematic achievement.

Vincent Canby, New York Times
Rotten

Each time a sequence approaches cinematic life, it's flattened by the appearance of a thesis.

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

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