Keep Going (2019)
Keep Going
”A mother and son trek through challenging landscapes to reconnect and find new rapport.”
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Based on the eponymous novel by Laurent Mauvignier and directed by Belgian filmmaker Joachim Lafosse (‘Perder la razón’), ‘Continuar’ could be defined as a “road movie” or “road trip film”, but on horseback. Aside from the roads themselves, the conventions of this subgenre are all here, with two somewhat disparate characters starting to re-encounter themselves and to connect with each other while they traverse a journey through new territories which also transforms them internally, with the particularity of presenting the changing relationship between a mother and her teenage son. Selected in a special section of the 2018 Venice Film Festival.
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Sybille has persuaded her adult son Samuel to come on a trek in the hope of finding a new rapport - but challenges await, as much from their own personalities as from the arduous landscape.
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