Arts & Entertainment
'Road To Nowhere' Stars To Talk To Palm Desert Fans
The screening will be held Saturday night at the Cinema Palm d'Or.
Cinemas Palme d’Or continues its popular “Meet the Filmmakers” series tonight with a special screening of “Road to Nowhere,” followed by a live Q&A session with the film’s director and two featured stars.
The screening will be held at 7:15 p.m. Saturday.
“We’re excited to have director Monte Hellman on hand to take questions from the audience after the film,” said Cinemas Palme d’Or co-owner Steve Mason. “For those who may have forgotten, in January Monte was the winner of the Palm Springs International Film Festival Maverick Award – it’s a real honor for him to be here with us.”
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He added that Hellman will be joined on stage by co-stars Waylon Payne and Shannyn Sossamon. Mason described the film as a complex drama that explores the tenuous balance between reality and fiction.
“It involves a beautiful young woman, murder, a powerful politico, a missing fortune and suicide,” he said. “It’s a powerful and evocative film.”
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According to the studio, “Road to Nowhere” revolves around a passionate filmmaker who, in creating a film based upon a true crime, ends up casting a mysterious young actress bearing a disturbing resemblance to the actual femme fatale she is to play.
In the process, he finds himself drawn into a complex web of haunting intrigue, and becomes obsessed with her, the crime, her possibly notorious past and the disturbing complexity between art and truth.
“Nowhere” is just one of two intriguing films premiering this weekend, Mason said.
“We’re also exciting to present the exclusive Riverside County engagement of ‘Beginners,’ starring Ewan McGregor and Christopher Plummer,” he said.
Mason described the film as an exploration of love through the evolving consciousness of Oliver (McGregor), who meets the irreverent and unpredictable Anna ( Mélanie Laurent) only months after his father Hal (Plummer) has passed away.
This new love floods Oliver with memories of his father who – following 44 years of marriage – came out of the closet at age 75 to live a full, energized, and wonderfully tumultuous gay life. Now Oliver endeavors to love Anna with all the bravery, humor, and hope that his father taught him.
Advance tickets for these limited-seating events are available on a first-come-first-served basis at the theater box office or by phone (with no service charge) at (760) 779-0430.
is located at 72840 Highway 111 in Palm Desert.
