The American filmmaker returns with actor Paul McKissack playing the doctor Robert Kramer He returned to America in 1987 after a ten-year absence. Men drive together on a stretch of road from the Canadian border to Key West. During this road trip, a portrait of a rediscovered homeland emerges between documentary and fiction. You attend meetings with people, observe nature and cities, see changes and harmony.
In 1936, “Route One” was the busiest road in the world. But over time it has become a route connecting small towns. It's now rivaled by a motorway, so it's little more than a trace of an ancient time that runs through towns and villages or gets lost in the suburbs. A formal street exists only in a few places; You'll heave a sigh of relief when you first find a route you can actually drive in the film.
The image is a gigantic project, a cloth made of a thousand threads. It does not follow a straight line, but rather opens up a whole network of lives, voices and myths. “Route One/America” is about the experience of America as a living organism: five months of shooting, one year of editing.
An unusual contemporary documentary about America, despite its length of 255 minutes, does not alienate the viewer, but encourages him to think for himself. Arte presents the film in two parts. – Worth watching from 14
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