Road pictures have featured a wide variety of protagonists: the comedy duo of Hope & Crosby, the feminist fugitives Thelma & Louise, a team of astronauts on the way to Jupiter, and even sentient cars. In “Détour,” Michel Gondry adds a determined tricycle to the list. Apple funded the production in 2017 to show off…

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Special effects—such as slow motion, vanishing subjects, zooming, and backward motion— have long been part of movie making.  The danger is that used only for the sake of using them, such options become gimmicky. The way to avoid that pitfall is to have a clear purpose, so that–for example–a slow-motion sequence adds drama or enables viewers to…

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