The Roads Not Taken

The Roads Not Taken is frequently moving, and a fascinating creative idea, but without sufficient information about Leo's character to anchor the narrative, it feels too abstract.

It's a chamber piece in many ways, but with bold flashback excursions that come close to causing its emotional engine to overheat.

[T]hat's it. That's the film. Three different Javier Bardems moaning solidly, sometimes crying, and struggling to write, for 85 minutes.

The Roads Not Taken, an understated drama from Sally Potter, is rich with small moments of intimacy.

A sad, timely story of family and fragility.

Elle Fanning and Sally Potter triumph again. It's not always an easy watch, but The Roads Not Taken tackles a distressing subject with care and invites us to reconsider our preconceptions.

The narrative never quite passes its halfway mark... the movie would've benefited from more relatable characters and clarity overall. [Full review in Spanish]

Potter’s movie leans heavily on its two lead performances, both dramatically different but equally essential.

The Roads Not Taken remains very Potterian; melancholic, middle-class, existential, a touch pretentious, but it does contain a weight that some of her pictures lack.

At its worst it can feel like a tolling, laboured and sometimes directionless trope through memory lane