The Road: A Story of Life and Death
On the oldest Roman road in the capital, filmmaker Marc Isaacs weaves together numerous poignant stories of loss and the search for belonging into a tapestry of the human experience. Keelta a young Irish woman leaves home to build a new life for herself on the road where Billy, the old Irish labourer is struggling to find a meaning to his life. Peggy, a 95 year old Jewish refugee from Vienna and Brigitte, a German born former air hostess, have both suffered bad husbands, whilst Iqbal, an unassuming Indian hotel concierge, awaits the arrival of his wife from Kashmir. A film that forces you to recognise the struggles and preoccupations of its characters as our own.
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Part of the From Lift to The Road: The Films of Marc Isaacs
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2001
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2003
Calais: The Last Border
2003
Philip and His Seven Wives
2005
Someday My Prince Will Come
2005
All White in Barking
2007
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2009
Outside the Court
2011
The Old Man and His Bed
2011
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2012
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2014
Touched by Murder
2016
Men Who Sleep in Trucks
2016
Moments of Silence
2017
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2017
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2017
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2017
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