| Reference Type |
Film Comment
journal
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| Title |
Detours: Delusion, a new road movie, prompts reflections on noir. |
| Author(s) | Donald Lyons |
| Volume |
27 |
| Page Number |
2 - 4 |
| Comments |
Although it is mostly a review of the then newly released 'Detours', Lyons' observations are interesting and articulate, particularly considering he is one of few theorists/critics to acknowledge that the Road Movie, whilst stemming from American pop-culture, is not strictly confined as an American genre. |
| Synopsis |
Lyons begins the article with the statement "..Roads. Not so much cars, but roads. Highways. They are a terrain, subject, metaphor - a subtext that devours the text - in what might be called film asphalte"(p. 2)
For the most part throughout the article, Lyons compares the existential qualities of Carl Colpaerts film Delusion with Edgar G. Ulmer's 1946 road picture Detour.
Yet, most interesting is the inclusion of beautifully poetic comments made by Billy Wilder, where he likens highways of the 40's, at the beginning of both 'Double Indemnity' and 'Sunset Boulevard' with "glossy black dance floors" to be glided over "...in rapt silence"(p. 3) |
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