Eldorado Road

Two Men on the Road, Together and Yet Alone

In “Eldorado,” a road movie that poignantly juggles absurdism and melancholy, the summertime landscape of the Wallonia region of Belgium is filmed to resemble a miniaturized American West. The soundtrack for this story of two mutually suspicious strangers who establish a tentative bond on a highway to nowhere echoes the twang of Ennio Morricone with a hint of parody.
The unsettled weather — billowing clouds give way to thunderstorms before the sun returns, only to disappear again — reflects the movie’s tempestuous emotional climate and lends “Eldorado” a cosmic dimension. [...]

di Stephen Holden, articolo completo (3895 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 1 maggio 2009