Detour
by Edgar G. Ulmer
with Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald
67’
USA, 1945
Restored by the Academy Film Archive and Film Foundation, in collaboration with Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique, Museum of Modern Art and Cinémathèque Française, with funding for the restoration provided by the George Lucas Family Foundation
Original language version with subtitles in Italian.
“Made in 6 days, with all the scenes on the street filmed with back projection by a Viennese director, the indisputable master of low-cost Hollywood B movies, it became the most famous cult film in the category of poor cinema.” (M. Morandini) “One of those little masterpieces that came out of the more untethered B-movie productions, in which the absence of resources became style, a search for atmosphere and an original angle. In Ulmer’s film, the search for the unusual leads to nightmare and dream, to an absurdity almost worthy of Kafka.” (G. Volpi)
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