Backroads

Backroads

The small but graniosos happenings of the time.

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Release Date

11/28/1997

Runtime

105 mins

Overview

Spain, 1974. A teenager and his father are traveling in a car that is the only property they have. Their life is a continuous move by desolate coastal apartments in the tourism low season. When forced to change route and get away from sea, their lives will change dramatically.

Status

Released

Original Language

Spanish

Budget

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Revenue

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Homepage

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A tender road movie about a father and son drifting along Spain's off-season coast, capturing the quiet ache of transience and the small moments that define a relationship. It moves with the unhurried pace of their travels, finding meaning in displacement and impermanence.

Mood

WistfulMelancholicContemplativeBittersweet

Themes

FamilyLoveComing of ageMortality

Tone

Tender

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

NaturalisticPainterly

Structure

Road movie

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