Gallivant

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Audience Member To call this film idiosyncratic does it an injustice; it is that, but is much more. The film follows the director, his elderly grandmother and young daughter on a road trip around the coastline of England, Wales and Scotland. The holiday feeling of their travels is tempered by the knowledge that his grandmother *is* elderly, and that his daughter suffers from Joubert syndrome and is unlikely to reach adulthood; this may be their last trip together. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Audience Member Director Andrew Kotting, his 90 year old grandmother, and his 9 year old daughter (who has cerebral palsy or something like it) take a trip around the coast of Great Britain. As a story, it's not dramatic: all it does is to give some vague hint of a narrative thread to what is basically a cinematic essay. It is beautiful to look at, at times, even though it was shot on 8mm. It shows little which would be familiar to, or visited by, a tourist. There is a constant sense of the past being lost; some footage from an earlier period is intercut, but many of the interviews with the very real people the crew meets on their travels also reminisce. This is an engaging piece of a reflective, contemplative nature. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member A marvelous road movie that records the experience of traveling the coast of Britain and makes it into a wonderful cinematic experience. The use of extraordinarily irrational images to bring out this whole new world and document what is a fantastic record to say the least is nothing short of exceptional. I highly recommend this to anyone Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member In the shadow of Keillor and his "Robinson in Space" particularly, but nevertheless an enjoyably curious travelogue around the coast of blighty. A few quite sharp and profound moments, certainly. And Kotting's experimental shorts on the DVD are well worth a look. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Audience Member Its hard to categorise this movie as it seems neither one thing or another. Part road movie, part documentary, part art installation. Whilst there is some genuine artistic intent within Gallivant its lost in any form of direction. No discernible structure but merely a collection of very odd moments on a road trip round the coastline of Britain. Some very nice moments include a nightmarish portrayl of Blackpool and a speeded up POV through Wales. Yet as a collective piece, Gallivant is ultimatly dissapointing. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Audience Member In the danger of sounding cheesy, this is inspiring filmmaking. In my opinion, it is the way forward to telling a personal story while avoiding kitsch and cliches. It is humourous, interesting to watch, and has a certain kind of joy about it that so many films lack. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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