From more than 65 hours of film footage, Robert Kramer crafted this epic portrait of the famous highway that runs from Maine to Key West, Florida.
“Charles Lane is a man with a vision. What has to be developed in filmmakers is a sense of who you are, what you want to say, and how you want to say it-a world view or a perspective that you can express in your own terms.”
The stories of Jewish immigrants in New York City are told with characteristic humor.
“The film is about the life of Georg, his wife Anna and their daughter Eva over a period of three years: it is the story of a successful career, it is the story of the price of conformity, it is the story of mental short-sightedness, it is a family story and it is the story of a lived consequence
« On a fait un film avec Anne-Marie Mieville sur les établissements Darty, qui s’appelle Le rapport Darty. Il nous avait été commande par Darty. ils nous avaient dit : « On gagne trop d'argent, tout va trop bien, on perd la tête, on ne sait pas ce qui se passe..
“One day I happened to bump into my co-scriptwriter in the street. It was cold. It was raining. I’d lost one of my gloves. ‘Someone should make a film about the Ten Commandments,’ Krzysztof Piesiewicz said to me. ‘You should do it.’ A terrible idea, of course.”