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The short film was made from material shot for a Levi’s commercial on which Gus Van Sant was given complete freedom. Van Sant delivered the ad, and separately made his own short film; one that feels complete in and unto itself. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.
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Alternative Title
Four Boys on the road in a Volvo
Premiere
22 Jun 1996
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USA
Source: IMDB (San Francisco International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival)
USA
22 Jun 1996
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Premiere
Source: IMDB (San Francisco International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival)
More
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there were four boys in that volvo!
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oh to be a boy in a crop top staring at the sunset with my dawgs
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it’s 3 am and i’m so happy i found this again after watching it years ago
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-Checks title
-Watches movie
-"Yeah, that checks out"
Honestly a banger.
The best LEVI's Ad I've ever seen.
Pedro Almodovar should have taken notes from this.
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Four Boys in a Volvo: Picture masculinity squeezed into the backseat of a Volvo, where eye contact feels more like a dare than a gesture of connection.
For Van Sant, silence is the statement, and tension is the punchline. Four boys, one Volvo, and all the weight of adolescent confusion wrapped into four minutes. If there’s a message, it’s that intimacy doesn’t need words to feel substantial. In Van Sant’s hands, masculinity becomes a quiet art form, proving that what’s left unsaid often speaks volumes.
Minimalist? Yes. Mundane? Hardly. Van Sant’s Volvo becomes a postmodern capsule, borrowing from Baudrillard’s hyperreality to blur the lines between real life and the art of doing absolutely nothing with feeling. By grounding us in…
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Essentially perfect?
Didn't like whenever any of them opened their mouths but fuck me Harris Savides was some kind of god; this is by far one of the best looking things I've ever seen in my life.
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This reminds me of me and the guys
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on the road, you’re alone,
away from the world.
the realisation is a stark embrace,
who will remember us when we’re gone?
we are bound to death,
to that mortality of human life,
what is left of us when we go?
who forgets,
who knows,
we’re all gone before we even go.
on the road, you’re alone,
forgetting as part of the forgotten,
you just know, that you go,
away from the world.
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the score is so good jesus christ
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This feels like a first experiment in moving from the style of My Own Private Idaho/Even Cowgirls Get the Blues to the style of Gerry/Elephant/etc.
I miss Gus. When is he going to do something good and gay again.
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No plot just vibes come on gus give us the 2 hour version
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1996: Ranked
Gus Van Sant: ranked
It's Gus Van Sant, there's a car, it's on the road, there's four teens driving around, minimal dialogue and great atonal music.... it's a mini-masterpiece!
See it here: youtu.be/yUefhzaKrBI?si=3s9zWz5GrBCwaFDg
