Jacob Stolworthy is revealing his 2024 picks in his 12 days of Christmas round up and on the tenth day he's picked road trip movie, Gasoline Rainbow.Directed by the Ross brothers, Gasoline Rainbow follows five Gen Z schoolmates taking a trip along the Pacific coast and is a life-affirming story. Watch it now on Mubi.
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00:00On the 10th day of Christmas, my true love gave to me,
00:02teens on the hunt for a big party.
00:09Here's the booth, right there in the tree.
00:12Gasoline Rainbow is not for everyone.
00:14I'm gonna start by saying that.
00:16If Gasoline Rainbow is for you,
00:17and you'll know about five minutes in whether it is,
00:20I think you will enjoy a night film more this year.
00:22It's a faux documentary
00:25by a director, Joey, called The Ross Brothers.
00:27Now I say faux documentary
00:29because you would watch their films
00:30and believe that you are watching a real documentary,
00:33but it's actually not.
00:34It's staged, it's scripted, it stars actors.
00:36They are loosely given notes
00:39and they just live their lives.
00:40So it's about five teenagers who are on their way,
00:43you know, they're having one last summer
00:45before they go to college
00:46and they're really good friends, living in Oregon,
00:48and they have one last journey together,
00:50a road trip to the Pacific coast.
00:52And this film just documents their journey
00:54and the people they meet along the way,
00:56you know, the many characters.
00:58And it's got a freewheeling notion to it.
01:00And it really just put me with them in the car.
01:04And yeah, maybe it made me hope,
01:07or dream myself that I could one day
01:09do a similar journey or whatever,
01:11but that's escapism.
01:12And I think Gasoline Rainbow offers escapism in droves,
01:16maybe more than any other film I've seen this year.
01:19It made me smile.
01:21It made me nostalgic.
01:22And yeah, it made me hopeful.
01:24What more could you ask for?
01:25Film is available to watch a movie.
01:27There's a lot of great films and movies,
01:28but I would really push this one to the top.
01:30Gasoline Rainbow is one of my, to be honest,
01:33unexpected, brilliant must-watches of the year.