“The Road to Mandalay” is Long The title of the film is borrowed from Rudyard Kipling’s 1890 eponymous love poem, an apt reference as both works tell the story of men and women braced against a still-standing societal fallacy: one of female dependency. The film, however, makes for a blood-red counter narrative.

●●●●○ The Road to Mandalay is a film that reminds us of the project of life; what it is to build one, what the necessary elements are. It documents the struggle to pick up and hold these pieces of a … Continue reading “The Road to Mandalay” is Long The title of the film is borrowed from Rudyard Kipling’s 1890 eponymous love poem, an apt reference as both works tell the story of men and women braced against a still-standing societal fallacy: one of female dependency. The film, however, makes for a blood-red counter narrative.