Set against the 2016 American election, Eugene Jarecki's (Reagan) documentary takes a musical road trip across the country in Elvis...
Set against the 2016 American election, Eugene Jarecki's (Reagan) documentary takes a musical road trip across the country in Elvis Presley's 1963 Rolls Royce.
"Forty years after the death of Elvis Presley, the new film from two-time Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize-winner Eugene Jarecki takes the King’s 1963 Rolls-Royce on a musical road trip across the country Presley left behind. From the deep south to New York, Las Vegas, and beyond, a tapestry of luminaries and unknown Americans join the journey, expressing themselves in words and song." (Sundance Film Festival)
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"Two elements - America and Elvis - come together in ticklish, surprising ways that expand and delight your perceptions."
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Variety
Variety"Promised Land deftly flits from biography to impact study to cinematic essay on the boom and bust of happiness-peddling myths, drawing a clear line from the music king to the current US leader."
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Screen Daily
Screen Daily"Even if one agrees with Jarecki's progressive political position, making Elvis into a metonym for the nation's spiritual corruption starts to feel too much like a contrived rhetorical sleight of hand."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood ReporterThe King (2017) | Details
- Runtime
- 107
- Genre
- Documentary
- Country of origin
- Germany, USA
