Route One / USA - Robert Kramer (1989) + bonus audio CD

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Robert Kramer removes into interesting creative territories, as the necessity of every human being to feel attached with something or someone in his life, exploring the places where he comes from. NY and all the Route One becomes a personal cosmos of people, believing, sadness and sometimes small births of hope. Just take your time and see Cinema going through someone's heart & spirit. It's the kind of film where you can feel honesty and true love for film making, as a way of life, as a way to to survive into a really confuse world everywhere around. Doc is just someone looking into himself and looking for something to get attached with, trying to get a meaning for his own existence. The people, the places, the film-maker and all the team behind becomes one with his film to offer to us one of the best documentaries ever made.

It is not exactly a very cheery vision of the US but Kramer does not judge or look down on the people he films, even though they, for some of them, don't share his political leanings. There is no didactic aim in his point of view, just a desire to film and witness an America he believed had changed during his 10-year absence. He's not here to explain but to understand what's going on around him, and the spectator follows in this quest. This is probably one of the greatest documentaries about the US.

Après dix ans d’exil volontaire, mis à profit pour faire des films en Europe, Robert Kramer revient aux Etats-Unis, pays dont il fut naguère une figure majeure de la contre-culture et plus encore du cinéma indépendant.
Pendant 6 mois, en 1987 et 1988, caméra 16 mm à l'épaule, il entreprend un étonnant retour aux sources, descendant la route numéro 1 qui, sur 5000 km, longe la côte atlantique, de la frontière canadienne jusqu'à la pointe de la Floride, là où se condensent toutes les strates de l'Histoire américaine.
Depuis John Ford, jamais un cinéaste n'avait aussi bien filmé l'Amérique, auscultant un territoire toujours au bord de l'implosion, où déclassés et laissés-pour-compte de la civilisation technologique laissent entrevoir l'avènement d'un monde où se juxtaposent désormais centres de décision planétaires et vastes zones d'abandon. En ce sens, si Route One / USA reste l'œuvre-phare d'un immense documentariste, il nous apparaît de plus en plus aujourd'hui comme un très grand film contemporain.

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BONUS CD: Variations musicales autour de "Route One / USA" (1989-2006)
Music from and inspired by the film
Composed and played by Barre Phillips, Michel Petrucciani, John Surman, Pierre Favre, Floris Nico Bunink.

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English audio track + French in optional srt files
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