An angry young man goes to Europe to find his father, a '60s radical turned doctor in exile.
Direction
Kramer's documentary-trained eye makes fiction feel stolen from reality.
Acting
Gallo's barely contained rage versus McIsaac's crumbling idealism.
Cinematography
Portugal's decaying beauty as character, not backdrop.
Director
Robert Kramer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kramer shot this between his epic 6-hour documentary 'Route One/USA' and his later Vietnam meditation 'The Edge'—part of his lifelong project mapping American imperialism's human wreckage.
Made during Portugal's post-revolutionary hangover, the film captures a specific European leftist melancholy that Americans rarely access—think Chris Marker with more bile.
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