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The Roads of Exile (1978)
Director: Claude Goretta
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From Time Out Film Guide
Long, slow, and probably not to everybody's taste, but a fascinating study of the Swiss philosopher/novelist Jean-Jacques Rousseau, which attempts to elucidate certain aspects of his life and work left obscure in his supposedly completely honest Confessions. Covering the years from Rousseau's exile after the burning of Emile in 1762 to his death in 1778 (years marked by his progressive persecution mania), it also ranges back to privileged earlier moments as he attempts to alleviate his present misery by recapturing or exorcising his past. It's almost a pointilliste film, as quietly undemonstrative as The Lacemaker, alternating between gorgeously idyllic natural landscapes and stark, severe interiors that would not have shamed Vermeer. Rossellini was originally slated to direct, but Goretta has done the subject proud, very much in the master's manner.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Claude Goretta
Producer: Etienne Laroche
Cast: François Simon, Dominique Labourier, Roland Bertin, Michel Berto, Gabriel Cattand, Martine Chevallier, Sylvain Clément, William Fox full cast
Duration: 165 mins
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