Parallel
Lines
Documentary
(90
min.)
Award-winning
filmmaker Nina Davenport (Hello Photo, Always a Bridesmaid) takes viewers
on an American odyssey-driving across the country in the Fall of 2001,
sharing strange, wonderful, thought-provoking and life-affirming
encountzers with a wide array of people along the way. As Davenport
travels trepidaciously from California back home to New York, what unfolds
is both her personal journey and a moving chronicle of a nation coping
with loss. Davenport dicovers that the shock of September 11th
uncovers common ground in suprising ways. With astonishing candor, the
people we encounter in gas stations, diners, antional parks or just by the
side of the road inevitably tell the stories of theis own personal
tragedies directly, obliquely or sometimes not at all realted to 9/11.
heartache and humor are deftly balanced as Parallel Lines becomes
much more than the story of an American tragedy but also evolves into a
rich and complicated portrait of American identity and hsitory. In the
end, the open road reveals pleasure, pain, and above all, the drive to
endure.
Its a delightful film there have been many post-9/11 efforts but none has quite captured it like this film the shades of American opinion. It happens to be a very good road movie in which the American identity is investigated but the timing gives it extra poignancy. I feel it can be shown any time in the future because it will not date. Nick Fraser, BBCs Storyville