Driving Men (2008) +

DIR.:
Susan Mogul (4 films)
TRT:
68 min
MPAA Rating:
NR
DISTRIBUTOR:
Susan Mogul Productions
SYNOPSIS:

AVAILABLE FOR SALE SOON! �Utterly original and constantly surprising.� -Walter Salles, Director, Central Station, Motorcycle Diaries. �Brash and funny and sexy and a bit wistfully intense. Mogul�s men are a wild bunch.� -Lucy Lippard, Writer and Activist


FULL SYNOPSIS

�Mogul looks at the men in her life, starting with her tragic first love and ending with a road trip with a new boyfriend forty years later. The often funny video tackles sex, desire, loss, family and the twisted threads of identity, as Mogul ponders being single and fifty� Rather than merely being a diary, Driving Men is finally about the challenge of crafting a life.� -LA Weekly

�Mogul�s men are a wild bunch. From the tragically lost Larry, to Ed the porn prince, to Ray, who had met his father in San Quentin, to Eric, the handsome aloof older man, to the charming blues freak Ron�I loved the collage of Jewish identity and feminism�It�s a great way to (not) write a memoir.� -Lucy Lippard

�..middle class Jewish families expectations in a clash with a generation of feminist activists who now, over fifty, are re-evaluating their choices. Brilliant!�
-Janis Plotkin, Former Director, San Francisco Jewish Film Festival

Driving Men teeters charmingly between art-house cinema and Hollywood flick�A sense of seeking ripples through the hilarity, heartbreak, and homecomings that constitute the events of Driving Men and fluidly stitches questions about the shifting constructs of woman and man, identity and truth, into a poignant love story.� -ARTFORUM

�Utterly original�Driving Men is impregnated with an honesty that has vanished from today's films. Loss and identity have been treated many times in cinema, but rarely like this.� Walter Salles, Director, Motorcycle Diaries


CAST & CREW

  • Producer(s): Susan Mogul
  • Writer(s): Susan Mogul
  • Actor(s): Mogul and her ex-lovers, male confidantes, her brothers and her Dad.

ADDITIONAL CREDITS

  • Editor: Susan Mogul, Music: Wayne Peet, Executive Producer: Michael Mayer, Creative Consultant: David Zeiger

AWARDS

  • Nyon International Film Festival, International Competition, Switzerland; Festival dei Popoli,International Competition, Italy,:New York Jewish Film Festival; San Francisco Jewish Film Festival at Yerba Buena; LA Filmforum, Los Angeles

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EXTERNAL LINKS

Filmmaker's Official Website