The acting performances for the most part were good, but the narrative slips in and out of flashbacks most of the time too quickly to give you a position to take. The film is mostly about a child caring for a parent with dementia. The only problem it's hard to believe she even knew him much less loved him as much as shown. It's basically almost two hours of watching how well the main actor can act being ill like that. The story shows a little complexity toward the end giving reason to all the pain the father was going through. You're not at all sure he didn't dream up his initial relationship. He had an apparent second with whom he married and had a child who is the other main character as daughter. There is a lot of wasted footage with him going back talking about a book he was writing with young women in supposedly Greece he met. Talking to them gives a little more background to an ultimately sketchy story. Some will review this title, and say it was well crafted with everything having meaning, but to me, even considering that, it lacked cohesiveness to make it a good film. I did, however, think about the dementia reality and sadness, but nothing like the film synopsis says it should be where I've read about it. The roads less taken as a title barely scratch anything meaningful in this drearily made flick.
Review of The Roads Not Taken
