The Reviews are coming in!
Posted on 01.30.08 by Brian @ 8:08 am

Part The Graduate, part Fitzcarraldo, The Art of Travel is a tribute to living on the road less traveled. Filmed entirely on location, it offers a more rounded portrayal of culture outside of the standard Hollywood clichés.
- Ryan Cracknell, Movie Views

“Art of Travel” is truly about the simple pleasures in life. It’s an unpretentious motion picture filled with familiar dramatic footprints, but remains something worthwhile and unexpectedly delicate.
- Brian Ornsdorf, FilmJerk.com

“The Art of Travel” is a quality adventure, and as a travelogue a gorgeous sight to behold.
Mark Bell, FilmThreat.com

“Be on the look out for The Art of Travel, a well-made shrewdly written comedy-drama that captures that feeling of being young and broke and ready to go anywhere.”
-Mick Lasalle, The San Francisco Chronicle

“Travel is an ambitious, involving and extensive travelogue that challenges the imagination. [A] feasible fable that allows one to remain contemplative and connected.”
-Frank Ochieng, Movie Eye

“Captures well what it’s like to travel and attacks the feelings and experiences that go with it without being over-the-top philosophically. It conjured up memories of my own travels and the realization and feelings of my own experiences.”
- Mathew Ralston, Orange County Register

“An extremely enjoyable romp that is guaranteed to leave you with wanderlust.”
-2008 Philadelphia Film Festival

“Visually stunning!”
-Bruce Newman, San Jose Mercury News

“The Art of Travel twists and turns like a meandering river, with unexpected comic surprises popping up around every bend. Smart and funny, it’s a journey that won’t soon be forgotten.”
- Cinequest 2008

“Emerging director Thomas Whelan created with Brian La Belle the sort of story anyone hopes to tell their grandchildren. The film is a love letter to wanderlust. It is for anyone who has considered trading in their return ticket home for a one-way ticket to someplace far outside of the usual comfort zone and anyone who has groaned over the standard two-week American vacation limit. No one in the film is snapping photos or writing postcards; everyone is absorbing an experience that will better shape them as living beings.”
- Deborah Nicol Dearth, The Desert Sun

“The Art of Travel has charmed film festivals with vistas of Central and South America, and a meaningful message of cultural exploration and acceptance.”
- Elliott K. Kotek, Moving Pictures Magazine


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  1. I just caught your film at Cinequest, and it was awesome, and you said we could come here to request a DVD when it’s ready. So here I am, requesting it! …and I promise to write that movie review on IMDB just as soon as the festival is over!

    Comment by Cynthia — March 1, 2008 @ 6:40 pm

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