Laurel is also the one, coincidentally, who gets hired to play Velma in Road to Nowhere after Mitchell sees the same audition reel that Tachen and the Cuban saw. It's this actress, Laurel Graham (Shannyn Sossamon, Wristcutters), who was having the affair with Tachen and who was either murdered or killed herself alongside him. Rafe Tachen (Cliff De Young) was up to some never-quite-explained shenanigans that connected him to a Cuban mover and shaker (Fabio Testi) whose daughter Velma has apparently gone missing and so they hire a young actress to fill in for her. Except all is not as it seems, which is what Nathalie's story is really about. At first I was going to describe where the story goes from there as "vertiginous," but really, it's more like an exploding firework, with lots of sparks and flames going off in various directions.Įssentially, Mitchell and his production partners want to tell the story of a politician in North Carolina who had an affair with a much younger Cuban national and possibly embezzled a significant chunk of money.
The film is called Road to Nowhere, and the camera zooms into the laptop screen as the credits roll over the top of what is apparently a murder and a suicide. Road to Nowhere opens in a sparse room where film director Mitchell Haven (Tygh Runyan) is showing his cinematic version of a recent scandal to Nathalie Post (Dominique Swain, Lolita), the internet journalist who broke the story. Then again, the Coen Bros.' jokingly tricked us from the start, leading us by the nose into their clever fiction Hellman waits until we have waded through the confusion (and all the credits) and gotten a handle on what is going down, and then he yanks the rug one last time. Part of the point of Road to Nowhere is that you don't know, and being aware of the ruse behind Fargo didn't really change my perception of Fargo.
As of this writing, I haven't investigated whether that is a lie or not, because I'm not convinced it really matters. That's the last thing you see on the screen as Monte Hellman's Road to Nowhere comes to an end. Please Note: The images used here are promotional stills not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review.
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