ROMANTIC ROAD

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Top Gear meets Last Of The Summer Wine in this atmospheric doc about a pair of British eccentrics who take a 5,000-mile pootle across India in a 1930s Rolls Royce. Well equipped with what one pal calls “global good manners”, Rupert and Jan Grey make friends in every region, despite driving a four-wheeled embodiment of postcolonial wealth disparity. For all its scenic appeal, however, Oliver McGarvey’s film doesn’t leave us wholly convinced about the actual value of its well-to-do protagonists’ quixotic escapades.