In view of his prestigious CV, it is an understatement to say that the director Yoan Fanise intends to spread a message of tolerance and love for his neighbor. After the superb plea 11-11 Memories Retold which strongly condemned the horror of war, the Frenchman takes advantage of the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall to tell with Road 96 the adolescent fantasies of a better world. But is the grass really greener elsewhere?
Adolescence is certainly an ungrateful age to say the least. Between vocalizations that are difficult to control and acne shoots, frustration can quickly ignite an already explosive cocktail, and give you the desire to run away. But Ptria, young people do not flee for one or two nights a family unit plagued by incomprehension, but a state tormented by a form of latent totalitarianism. For those runaways who still dream of a better world, there is only one solution: to gain more side than the border, by going up the eponymous Route 96.
Tyrak Sea
The adventure in the form of a narrative and procedural road trip therefore places us each new start in the shoes of a mutic teenager thrown body lost on the roads of what all the same strongly resembles a version not so distant from the United States, o two political camps are trying to take power, even if the current holder seems to enjoy a certain hegemony. A repeated attack by the media in command seems to justify tightening the screws a little vague, but which seems sufficient for more and more adolescents to try to go “north”.
As in Nudes and Culotts, it is necessary by all the means to swallow the kilometers: by hitchhiking, by bus, or on foot, each day is right to unroll a new decoration, to generate new meetings, and to get closer to the objective, by trying to escape the local cops . In Road 96, many parameters are random, and the same dinner take advantage of a credit card to withdraw a few tickets in order to buy a sandwich or a bus ticket, to meet a brief traveling companion, or to collect some valuable advice for the final stage of the journey. travel, not without provoking the establishment in passing, for the form. Because if the power in place seems to take advantage of a legacy position to accuse more or less chimerical adversaries without proof, a wind of freedom seems to be able to change an entire era. Zeitgeist, I write your name.
On the road to Maine, son
It is the first person that we walk the roads, interiors and other surroundings of gas stations, looking for a change, or objects intended to continue the journey. It is that the energy decreases logically little, and it will be necessary to think to nourish a minimum and to take rest, even if it means sleeping on a pile of cardboard boxes. The management of finances and energy therefore depends on each journey and on the interlocutors who will take you in flu or sympathy according to the multiple choice dialogues that punctuate certain sequences.
Despite good intentions, acting and writing often lack depth, and the empathy that could be created does not succeed when one attaches to the few recurring profiles whose history does not exist. is revealed only after several escapades. The idea of multiplying the attempts at the controls of new protagonists does indeed offer a certain replayability, but also underlines their silence which makes the exchanges unnatural. However, some abilities such as persuasion where terminal hacking allows you to discover the same places from other angles, but despite fairly short runs, the impression of having quickly covered the question inevitably comes to an end. from his nose.
96, anne cathartic
Is that Road 96 attempts to play on many levels, by sliding rather awkwardly phases of mini-games between two narrative sequences, and if the variety is certainly present, their playful interest often remains limited, and one sometimes wonders if the shooting, trombone or driving sequences were really essential. The adventure also suffers from its uneven rhythm: certain sequences intersect too abruptly for the narrative impact to function properly, and the stages follow one another without always forming a coherent loop.
It is all the more unfortunate that Road 96 nevertheless develops a subtle and nuanced subject: beyond the staged adolescent flight, the two months which separate the beginning of the adventure from the fateful presidential election, make it possible to put forward many points of view. Between the revolutionary fork and the legitimists of the ballot box, the spectrum is wide enough for everyone to try to vary the approaches, just to probe more deeply the convictions of the seven recurring characters. But to get around the question, and try to discover the results of its intensive and repeated lobbying, we will have to tirelessly get back on the road. Presented as a …
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