Not exact matches
There are worse things to say about a
documentary than «It leaves
viewers wanting to spend much, much more time in its world.»
Unlike most recent
documentaries, who seem intent on doing nothing more
than dictating and informing, The Royal Road is an exception, a film that allows
viewers the room to breathe and, more importantly, to think.
The movie performs its act of documentation almost frighteningly well, to the point where the scenes occurring before the
viewer bear a stronger resemblance to a drama
than the conventional ideal of
documentary.
For more
than three decades, the fifth estate has been Canada's premier investigative
documentary program, acquainting
viewers with a dazzling parade of political leaders, shady characters and ordinary people whose lives were touched by triumph or tragedy.