London 2009: THE ROAD, MEN ON THE BRIDGE
A handful of Friday highlights at the 2009 The Times-BFI London Film Festival:
The Road, based on Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, sounds like the perfect Thanksgiving movie:
"An unnamed man (Viggo Mortensen) and his young son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) travel alone through a post-apocalyptic landscape, ravaged by an unspecified catastrophe. Ash and soot hang in the air, it is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is grey. The sky is dark, the cities abandoned and empty, the roads littered with corpses, the countryside deserted save for marauding gangs eating human flesh to survive."
Appropriately enough, The Road opens in the US on Nov. 25. Mortensen, I should add, is a potential [...]
