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Film adaptation of Kerouac not the same 'Road' or time
Walter Salles' long-in-the-works screen adaptation of "On the Road," now opening in theaters, comes off as a museum piece, cast in amber, a hagiography in every sense of the word. Beautifully shot but oddly lifeless, it is an exercise in nostalgia, which is what the novel stood against.
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Film adaptation of Kerouac not the same 'Road' or time
Walter Salles' long-in-the-works screen adaptation of "On the Road," now opening in theaters, comes off as a museum piece, cast in amber, a hagiography in every sense of the word. Beautifully shot but oddly lifeless, it is an exercise in nostalgia, which is what the novel stood against.
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