Walter Salles

Walter Salles on The Motorcycle Diaries and Career Highlights

The screenplay by playwright Jose Rivera skillfully translates the straightforward diaries into quietly compelling dramatic terms.

Though Dark Water doesn't run deep....Salles keeps his head above [it]...with superior acting, mise en scene, story, script, and photography.

This pretty period-pictorial companion piece to the novel fatally misses out on the brain-firing raw buzz that Kerouac felt and passed on to his readers...