How did America change from Easy Rider into Donald Trump? What became of the dreams and utopias of the 1960's and 1970's? What do the people who lived in that golden age think about it today? Did they really blow it? Shot in Cinemascope - from New Jersey to California - this melancholic and elegiac road-movie draws upon the portrait of a confused, complex and incandescent America one year after the start of the electoral campaign. That golden age has become its last romantic border and an inconsolable America is about to pull on a trigger called Trump.
Cinematography
Cinemascope landscapes that mourn what America could've been.
Direction
Thoret's patient, almost funeral procession through a broken dream.
Director
Jean-Baptiste Thoret
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during the 2016 primary season, the film captures interview subjects who still believed Trump's nomination was impossible—making their pre-election optimism almost unbearable to watch now.
Stanton Kaye, interviewed here about his 1967 experimental film 'Brandy in the Wilderness,' had virtually disappeared from public life for decades; Thoret reportedly tracked him down through a collector in Pasadena.
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