Set against the backdrop of the American Southwest and filled with beautiful establishing shots countered by gritty, slice-of-small-town-life interiors, “The Short History of the Long Road” retains a hopeful vibe while never glossing over Nola’s predicament.Īrmed with only an old photo and the name of an Albuquerque bar once run by her father and her mother, who left when she was baby (“She zigged and we zagged,” is how her father explained it), Nola sets out in that general direction and encounters the obligatory colorful cast of supporting characters along the way, including a churchgoing foster parent named Marcie (Rusty Schwimmer) who offers Nola a roof over her head and hot meals but quickly grows impatient with Nola’s lack of social skills and respect for the rules the gruff but goodhearted auto repair shop owner Miguel (Danny Trejo), who offers Nola a job at the garage so she can pay off the parts and labor on the broken-down van, and a sensitive and quiet Native American girl named Blue (Jashaun St. When tragedy hits, Nola must learn that life on the road may not be her only choice. As The Short History initially hits the road, it echoes 2018’s haunting Leave No Trace, introducing another off-the-grid father-daughter team.
But it manages to find its own way just the same. The Short History of the Long Road is an independent film that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 24, 2019, and was released theatrically on. And while Nola has an impressive array of survival skills as taught to her by her father, she can’t just keep driving forever. The Short History of the Long Road 2020 Drama 1 h 34 min English audio CC Unrated Hollywood Records Artist Sabrina Carpenter (Disney’s Girl Meets World) stars as Nola, a girl whose home is the open road with her father and their van. It may follow a familiar, occasionally derivative narrative route, recalling other, better movies. Carpenter is repped by Paradigm, Foundation Media Partners, Faculty and SGSBC. That question becomes more than hypothetical fairly early on in writer-director Ani Simon-Kennedy’s lyrical and melancholy and visually stunning “The Short History of the Long Road.” After a sudden and unexpected development somewhere in Texas removes Clint from the picture, Nola literally takes the wheel of the van and starts driving. The Short History of the Long Road is Simon-Kennedy’s second feature narrative, following Days of Gray. FilmRise presents a film written and directed by Ani Simon-Kennedy.
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