An elderly English couple take a 5,000-mile road trip across India and Bangladesh in their Rolls-Royce in this gentle travel documentary
Here’s a gentle, low-stakes travel documentary about a couple’s 5,000-mile road trip across India and Bangladesh in a vintage car. Jan and Rupert Grey loaded up their 1930s Rolls-Royce and set off from Mumbai. In interviews, Jan has described them as “an elderly English couple driving an elderly English motor”. But in all honesty, these two are a pair of ageless evergreen boomers, recreating a backpacking adventure on the hippy trail they did in the 60s.
There are some mildly hairy moments along the way: mechanical trouble inevitably; and a spot of bother with anti-government rebels. Rupert gets roped into acting in a Bollywood movie, a small part playing a detestable colonial-era governor. The nastiness doesn’t come naturally to him but the aristocratic vowels do. Rupert,...
Here’s a gentle, low-stakes travel documentary about a couple’s 5,000-mile road trip across India and Bangladesh in a vintage car. Jan and Rupert Grey loaded up their 1930s Rolls-Royce and set off from Mumbai. In interviews, Jan has described them as “an elderly English couple driving an elderly English motor”. But in all honesty, these two are a pair of ageless evergreen boomers, recreating a backpacking adventure on the hippy trail they did in the 60s.
There are some mildly hairy moments along the way: mechanical trouble inevitably; and a spot of bother with anti-government rebels. Rupert gets roped into acting in a Bollywood movie, a small part playing a detestable colonial-era governor. The nastiness doesn’t come naturally to him but the aristocratic vowels do. Rupert,...
- 10/4/2021
- by Cath Clarke
- The Guardian - Film News
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