Le Grand Voyage

Date: Saturday, April 25, 2009

Synopsis: Le Grand Voyage uses the classic road-trip genre to explore the generational divide inside one French family. In this film, a dysfunctional father-son duo journeys in a car  toMecca. Reda , a secular young man in the south of France, feels obliged to drive his father to pilgrimage a few weeks before college entrance exams. The cultural chasm between Reda and his father grows worse along the trip through Europe, the Levant, and down into Arabia. Though he speaks excellent French, Reda’s father will only speak to him in Arabic. The closer the two get to Mecca, the more tensions and disasters mount. Will the feuding pilgrims make peace at last or is this generation gap unbridgeable?

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