Movie a long way home movie#
And don't expect some souped-up drag racing road movie as this one's set in an old banger of a Saab (apologies to producer Simon Harvey whose family car it is), and the main characters are less comedic buddies on the run and more an estranged father and teenage daughter, whose twain is destined to never meet. Twenty-three locations in the Duchy double up as various roadsides, cafes, lay-bys and rural houses in Wales. It's that rare thing, a road movie set in the UK. Read more: Cornish director films his own battle with Parkinson’s disease in powerful short movie The film - which debuted at Manchester Film Festival in March - was shot on location in Cornwall over 18 days in the summer of 2019 with its original release date delayed due to Covid. Long Way Back is a road movie with a difference which has already proved a hit at film festivals.Ĭornish director and writer Brett Harvey has long promised great things with his vibrant and darkly humorous movies, Weekend Retreat and Brown Willy, but with Long Way Back he has produced a classic, which deserves to be celebrated just as much as Cornwall's big screen hit and BAFTA winner Bait. A Cornish film, which received a rapturous response from audiences when it premiered in April, will now get a wider screening in cinemas across Cornwall and further afield.
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