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On the Road

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Original title: On the Road
Year: 2012
Running time: 136 min.
Country: France
Director: Walter Salles
Screenwriter: José Rivera. Novel: Jack Kerouac
Music: Gustavo Santaolalla
Cinematography: Eric Gautier
Cast: Garrett Hedlund, Sam Riley, Kristen Stewart, Amy Adams, Tom Sturridge, Viggo Mortensen, Alice Braga, Danny Morgan, Elisabeth Moss, Kirsten Dunst, Terrence Howard, Steve Buscemi, Madison Wolfe, Sarah Allen, Kim Bubbs, Kaniehtiio Horn
Producer: Co-production France-United Kingdom-United States-Brazil-Argentina;
MK2 Productions, Vanguard Films, American Zoetrope, Ciné+, Jerry Leider Company, Film4 Productions, Canal+, France 2 Cinema
Genre: Drama. Adventure | Road Movie. 1940s. 1950s. Friendship
Movie Groups: Jack Kerouac Adaptations
Synopsis: Dean and Sal are the portrait of the Beat Generation living in the here and now during the late forties. Their search for "it" results in a fast paced, energetic roller coaster ride with highs and lows throughout the U.S. Based on the legendary 1957 "beat" novel "On The Road", by Jack Kerouac.

Awards: 2012: Cannes Film Festival: Official Selection

Critics' reviews

"A beautiful and respectful adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s landmark novel that intermittently leaves the ground to take flight"

Todd McCarthy: The Hollywood Reporter
"Salles has lovingly crafted a poetic, sensitive, achingly romantic version of the Kerouac book that captures the evanescence of its characters' existence and the purity of their rebellious hunger for the essence of life"

Kenneth Turan: Los Angeles Times
"Call it a successful failure. Some movies worth seeing are like that (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"

Michael Phillips: Chicago Tribune
"Evocatively lensed, skillfully made (...) Walter Salles' picture pulses with youthful energy but feels overly calculated (...), attesting to the difficulty and perhaps futility of trying to reproduce Kerouac's literary lightning onscreen"

Justin Chang: Variety
"Although Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road' has been praised as a milestone in American literature, this film version brings into question how much of a story it really offers (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"

Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times
"A dash of Tarantino might have juiced up Walter Salles' wrongheadedly well-mannered take on Jack Kerouac's (...) landmark. Kerouac's semi-autobiographical novel comes to the screen looking good but feeling shallow (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"

Peter Travers: Rolling Stone
"Handsome shots and touching sadness don't compensate for the tedious air of self-congratulation in Walter Salles's road movie (...) Rating: ★★ (out of five)"

Peter Bradshaw: The Guardian

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