Au bout du chemin

Original title: End of the Road

1970
R
1h 50m

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Stacy Keach, Dorothy Tristan, and Harris Yulin in Au bout du chemin (1970)

After a stay in an asylum, Jacob takes a job as an English lecturer and begins a disastrous affair with Rennie, the wife of a colleague.After a stay in an asylum, Jacob takes a job as an English lecturer and begins a disastrous affair with Rennie, the wife of a colleague.After a stay in an asylum, Jacob takes a job as an English lecturer and begins a disastrous affair with Rennie, the wife of a colleague.

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6.4/10

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Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination total

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Trivia
To date the film has never been submitted for a UK certificate. Its British release was without a certificate at the ICA Cinema in the Mall, London, showing at weekends from 17 June 1972. It has not been commercially released in the UK since, and has not to date been shown on British television.

Quotes
Jacob Horner: This may sound somewhat theatrical to you... but would you mind telling me where I could go for 58 dollars and 75 cents?

Crazy credits
The closing credits play over footage of the moonshot, and end with the sound of Jacob Horner moaning.

Connections
Featured in L'homme qui venait d'ailleurs (1976)

Soundtracks
Don't Worry 'Bout Me
Written by Ted Koehler & Rube Bloom
Performed by Billie Holiday

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A neglected masterpiece of late sixties cinema

I would like to refute many of the negative comments about this film. It is the closest, I believe, that an American film of the period came to emulating the look and sound of late 60s' Godard or Bergman's Persona. End of the Road would be be a perfect companion to a series of films that might include Performance, the aforementioned Bergman, Mickey One (which director Avakian edited), or William Friedkin's adaptation of The Birthday Party. I am a big fan of Barth's novel, but I feel this radical adaptation extends the original in a way that is equally groundbreaking. The novel was more about the fifties, while the film is shaped by the explosive events of 1968 - Tet, the Kennedy and King assassinations, student riots, the rise of Nixon/Agnew - which take the whole idea of the novel's "politics of the personal" to another level. A DVD restoration of this misunderstood landmark is well overdue.